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If you are active in mining with your company and would like to cancel your permit to prospect for mineral resources, you can apply to the competent authority.

With a mining permit, also known as an exploration permit, you are the only person authorized to explore for certain raw materials in a defined area and for a prescribed period of time.

You can have this permit canceled in full or in part, either objectively or spatially. To do so, you must submit an application to the competent mining authority. You do not have to give any reasons for revocation.

There are 3 types of mining permits:

• Permit for commercial purposes: exclusive right to discover deposits and determine their extent,
• Permission for scientific purposes: exclusively for research purposes and
• Permission for large-scale exploration: to determine the characteristics of possible deposits.

Permission under mining law extends to so-called non-mining mineral resources that are of particular importance to the economy as a whole. These include energy resources such as hard coal and lignite or crude oil and natural gas, as well as precious and non-ferrous metals and salts. The area covered by the permit is limited to the earth's surface and theoretically extends to the center of the earth.

Application for annulment

You must have a mining permit for the exploration of non-mining mineral resources.

You can apply to cancel your permit online via the "BergPass" platform or in writing to your local mountain authority.

Cancel your permit online apply:

• Go to the "BergPass" online platform and log in.
  • To register, you will need a BundID and an identity card or residence permit with an active online ID function.
• Call up the application form and fill it out completely and truthfully.
• Upload the required documents as a file and send the application.

Apply in writing for your permit to be revoked:

• Contact your responsible mining authority and coordinate the required application documents.
• Submit the application and all required documents.

Further procedural steps:

• The competent authority will check your application and the documents submitted. If any documents are missing, the authority will contact you.
• You will receive a notification by post confirming that your permit has been revoked. In addition, the notification will be sent electronically to the relevant mailbox (BundID or ELSTER company account) in advance and information will be displayed in BergPass.
• You will also receive a notification of costs. Pay the fees.

There are no deadlines to observe.

• Objection, which is processed by the competent mining authority
• If necessary, subsequent appeal to the administrative court

• Mining permit Cancellation
• Upstream procedure for the exploration (prospecting) of certain (non-mining) raw materials (mineral resources) in a defined area (exploration field).
• Defines an area in which only the permit holder has the right to explore (prospect) the granted non-mining mineral resource(s)
• Permission can be revoked in whole or in part upon application. This can be spatially or, in the case of several mineral resources, also objectively
• Reasons do not have to be stated
• Application via
  • online portal "BergPass" or
  • directly to the responsible mining authority
• Responsible: Mining authority of the federal state in which the permit field is located

Please contact the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Geology and Mining (LGB).