Regulations for Conservation Forest Managements Article 15

Mineral-deposits prospecting and/or mining work to be conducted within the protection forest shall be conducted within a tunnel. Notwithstanding, phased open-cut mining may be adopted where the prospecting and/or mining work cannot be conducted in a tunnel and such is affirmed by the relevant assessment by the scholars/experts invited by the competent mining authority and approved by the central competent authority.Where the minefield provided in the preceding paragraph is the self-provided minefield of a cement business and where the total area of each open-cut area thereof amounts to 10 hectares or more, shaft mining shall be adopted except in cases where it is not possible to adopt shaft mining and such is affirmed by the relevant assessment of the scholars/experts invited by the competent mining authority and approved by the central competent authority.