Ministry of Mines

The Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy continues with its training of outstation personnel for the Bureau of Mines.

Summary of gold, cassiterite and wolframite comptoirs approved by the Ministry of Mines

(b) The Ministry requests the Ministry of Energy and Mines to maintain appropriate controls over the radioactive material used in Guatemala for industry and for medical purposes.

List of companies operating in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that are not registered with the Ministry of Mines

Rural Electrification This action covers 29 former quilombo communities and forms part of the Light for Everyone Program of the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).

While the Panel has tried to maintain a cordial relationship with the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy, the working relationship between the Ministry and the international donor community in Monrovia has deteriorated in the light of this development.

As for legal measures on explosives, their import and sale are governed by a State monopoly granted to the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Hydraulics (MMEH).

Although AMA was requested by the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy on 17 February 2005 to cease its activities, it has either settled any outstanding issues with the Ministry or has ignored its instructions and recommenced digging.

Moreover, several local officials were reportedly engaged in the illegal sale of mining permits, in contravention of the directives issued by the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy.

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Number of mines

Working Group on Mines Other than Anti Personnel Mines

proposal on mines other than anti personnel mines (motapm)

Working Group on Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines

Colombia has the fourth largest number of mine victims in the world victims of anti personnel mines, booby traps and mines other than anti personnel mines.

Working Group on Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

The permitted purpose for which mines were used, the activity or project in which these mines were used, progress made or objectives realized in the use of these mines, the types and quantities of mines used and any other relevant information (e.g., the location of the use of the mines).

(vii) Mines.

The ICRC considers these mines to be anti personnel mines and banned for those States which are party to the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti personnel Mines.

Hand emplaced mines There are no specific references to hand emplaced mines in this section of the Coordinator's paper.

Pilot Ministry Ministry of Justice

The field is too full of mines.

Moreover, the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy has prepared a certificate of origin for all diamonds extracted in Liberia and intends to use some 5.6 million pledged by the United States of America to support this exercise.

It is prohibited to use mines other than anti personnel mines outside the borders of the State which possesses them.

Vice Ministry of Defence (Ministry of Defence)

The WAMCO agreement, as well as deals concerning iron ore and scrap metal, which are outlined elsewhere in the present report, have had a significant negative impact on the credibility of the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy.

The Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy clearly lacks the capacity to address illegal mining in such inaccessible locations and there is still no permanent UNMIL deployment north of the Bomi Hills between the Lofa and Moro Rivers.

Twelfth session Geneva, 14 22 November 2005 Agenda item 8 Mines other than anti personnel mines (MOTAPM)

The threat of unexploded mines and explosive devices

The Ministry of Mines had accordingly started a village water supply programme that had now extended the coverage to 80 per cent of the country and was expected within two years to have reached even the remote mountain areas.

Vice Ministry of Justice (Ministry of the Presidency)

We see above ground mines.

Destroying stockpiled anti personnel mines

Destroying Stockpiled Anti personnel mines

(2) A total of 134 States Parties now no longer hold stockpiled anti personnel mines, together having destroyed almost 38 million mines.

Such initiative is jointly undertaken by five key government agencies, namely the Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health.

Vice Ministry of Social Welfare (Ministry of the Interior)

Vice Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health and Sports)

Vice Ministry of Hydrocarbons (Ministry of Mining and Hydrocarbons)

Transfers of mines have virtually halted, large tracts of previously mined lands have been cleared and more than 31 million stockpiled mines have been destroyed.

According to data from the Ministry of Energy and Mines, the use of firewood as an alternative source of energy decreased between 1990 and 2005 as the proportion of homes using firewood dropped from 79 to 61 per cent over this period.

The damage to the reputation of the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy, in the light of the WAMCO agreement as well as other dealings in iron ore and scrap metal, is likely to take a considerable period of time to repair.

Vice Ministry of Defence, division of the Ministry of Defence