采矿许可证到期后继续开采行为的刑法定性

【中图分类号】D924.36 【文献标识码】A 【文章编号】2095-7009（2025）04-0103-09

Criminal Law Qualification of Continuing Mining After the Expiration of a Mining License

SONG Yi-ming，WU Lin-sheng （School ofLaw，Zhengzhou University，Zhengzhou 45Oool，China）

Abstract：Thequestionofwhether miningactivitiesconductedafter theexpirationofamining licenseconstitutecriminalillegalityisa materof disputeinboth theoryand practice.Theprotected legalinterestsof thecrimeofillegal miningare the order of national mineral resource management and the state'sownership of mineral resources. The mining right has both public and private law atributes，while the mining licenseonly represents its public law attribute，leading to a phenomenonof“separation of rights and certificates”.Therefore，thecontinuation of mining beyond the license period does not necessarily implythat the state's ownership of mineral resources has been infringed upon. The temporary protective efect of theimplied extensionof permitsalows fortheposibilityofcontinuity betweenoldand new licenses.Thecontinuityof the mininglicense should be thecore focus，only whentheoriginal mining licenseexpires andcannot be extended through administrative extension systems，and the original licensee continues toexploit mineral resources，does itconstitute the actus reus of the crime of illegal mining.

Key words：illegal mining；expired mining；mining rights；mining license； tacit extension permit

一、问题的提出

我国刑法对非法开采矿产资源行为的规制进行过多次调整，1997年刑法颁布以前，对于此种行为按照“故意毁坏公私财物罪”定罪处罚，后在1997年颁布的刑法中单独设立了非法采矿罪。（剩余15143字）