GRANITE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT RULES, 1999

CHAPTER III

PROSPECTING OPERATIONS

8. Scheme of prospecting.- (1) Every holder of a prospecting licence for granite shall submit to the State Government or any person authorised in this behalf by that Government within a period of sixty days from the date of execution of the prospecting licence, a scheme of prospecting indicating the manner in which he proposes to carry out the prospecting operation, in the area covered by the licence and the scheme shall incorporate the following; namely :-

(a) particulars of the area;

(b) the scale of the plan and the area of geological mapping;

(c) the number of pits, trenches, and bore holes which he proposes to put in the area and the locations thereof;

(d) the particulars of the machines to be used;

(e) the details of exploratory mining to be undertaken;

(f) the number of samples proposed to be drawn and tested;

baseline information of prevailing environmental conditions before the beginning of the prospecting operations;

(h) any other matter relevant for the preparation of a scheme of prospecting, as directed by the State Government or any person so authorised from time to time by a general or specific order.

(2) The prospecting scheme under sub-rule (1) shall be prepared by a recognised person or a geologist or a mining engineer employed under clause (a) of sub-rule (1) of rule 38.

9. Modification of scheme of prospecting.- (1) A prospecting scheme prepared and submitted under rule 8 may be modified at any time on geological considerations by the holder of a prospecting licence during continuance of the prospecting licence.

(2) Any modification carried out under sub-rule (1) shall be intimated to the State Government or any person authorised in this behalf by that Government, by the holder of a prospecting licence within a period of fifteen days.

10. Prospecting operations to be carried out in accordance with scheme of prospecting.- Every holder of a prospecting licence for granite shall carry out the prospecting operations in accordance with the scheme of prospecting submitted under rule 8 or with such modifications, if any, as intimated under rule 9 or as directed by the State Government or any person authorised by that Government in this behalf.

11. Report of prospecting operations.- (1) Every holder of a prospecting licence for granite shall submit to the State Government or any person authorised in this behalf by that Government an annual report in Form A so as to reach them by 30^th April for the previous year;

Provided that a report in Form-A shall be submitted within a period of three months after the completion of abandonment of the prospecting operations or the expiry of the prospecting licence, whichever is earlier.

(2) Where prospecting operations for granite are carried out by any authoruty specified in the second proviso to sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Act without a prospecting licence, such authority shall submit the annual report in Form A to the State Government or any person authorised by that Government  in respect of each area where prospecting operations for granite have been undertaken by them.

Provided that this sub-rule shall not apply in a case where field operations consist of only geological mapping or geo-physical or geo-chemical investigations.

(3) The State Government or any person authorized in this behalf by that Government shall forward a copy, each of the annual report in Form-A received under sub-rule (1) or sub-rule (2), as the case may be, to the Controller General, Indian Bureau of Mines, within thirty days from the date of such receipt.