en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, at the MOU ("Memorandum of Understanding on Strengthening Cooperation for the Development of Potash and Associated Minerals in 'Ten Provinces and One City' of Laos," hereinafter referred to as the "MOU") cooperation and exchange symposium and work results handover ceremony held in Vientiane, Laos, between the Department of Geology and Minerals of the Lao Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Qinghai Provincial Department of Natural Resources, and China's Qinghai Provincial Nuclear Industry Geological Bureau, the Bureau officially transferred two sets of standards and specifications to the Department of Geology and Minerals of the Lao Ministry of Industry and Trade. The transferred documents include the "Geological Exploration Specification for Solid Potash Minerals of the Lao People's Democratic Republic," the "Regulations on the Management of Potash Mines of the Lao People's Democratic Republic," and the "1:50,000 Remote Sensing Geological Interpretation Report for Parts of Oudomxay, Bolikhamxay, Khammouane, Savannakhet, Champasak, and Attapeu Provinces of the Lao People's Democratic Republic." The Laos-Thailand Mesozoic giant potash metallogenic belt is one of the regions richest in global potash resources, but the country's level of basic geological and mineral exploration work is relatively low, and the construction of its standards and specifications system in the field of geological and mineral exploration and development has been relatively lagging.

Having deeply cultivated potash resource exploration in Laos for nearly 20 years, China's Qinghai Provincial Nuclear Industry Geological Bureau has accumulated rich technology, talent, and practical experience in the field of potash and related mineral exploration and development. To date, the Bureau has completed a cumulative drilling workload of 150,000 meters and an exploration area of 3,500 square kilometers in Laos, occupying over 80% of the potash-bearing basin areas in Laos and more than 90% of the market share in the Lao potash exploration industry. By early 2019, the Bureau had cumulatively identified over 4 billion tonnes of potassium chloride resources in Laos. The two sets of standards and specifications and the remote sensing geological interpretation report transferred this time mark the first systematic entry of China's geological exploration industry standards and specifications into the field of potash resource exploration and development in Laos.

In February 2024, the Bureau and the Department of Geology and Minerals of the Lao Ministry of Energy and Mines signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation for the development of potash and associated minerals involving Vientiane and other "Ten Provinces and One City" in Vientiane, Laos. The compilation of the Lao potash geological exploration specification and the country's potash mine management regulations was one of the core tasks of the memorandum. During the compilation process, the Bureau leveraged the scientific and technological leadership of the Key Laboratory for Potash Survey and Research in Southeast Asia, cooperated with the Qinghai Provincial Bureau of Geological and Mineral Exploration and Development, and established a scientific research project team for compiling the Lao potash geological exploration specification. Guided by the principles of professionalism, comprehensiveness, rigor, and applicability, the team researched and formulated technical standards for potash exploration and development suited to Laos' national conditions.

After the initial drafts of the two "specifications and regulations" were completed, the Bureau organized domestic experts to provide guidance, demonstration, and review multiple times. The final documents fully considered Laos' economic development level, current legal and policy provisions, and the actual local exploration technology conditions. Subsequently, the Bureau also organized the translation of Lao and English versions, forming trilingual texts of the "specifications and regulations" in Chinese, Lao, and English. This meeting was the first time since the Bureau and the Department of Geology and Minerals of the Lao Ministry of Industry and Trade jointly signed the MOU in 2024 that both sides have concentratedly displayed work results and completed the formal handover of some cooperation outcomes through an international cooperation symposium.

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