Recently, a harsh measure has emerged in the Russian mining community - granting a general amnesty to miners using "black equipment."

The core advisors involved in the legislation directly pointed out: Currently, over 60% of the Mining activities in the country are still lingering in a gray area, and the root of the problem lies in the source of the equipment. Although the country legalized Mining last year and established a registration and taxation process, how many actually implemented it? Only 150 infrastructure companies and 1,300 entities have truly registered.

Why are the remaining miners not moving? They are afraid of being checked for the origin of their equipment.

Consultant Oleg Ogienko made it very clear: if there is no way out for illegally imported equipment, who would dare to actively run into the gun barrel? As a result, what should be regulated is not regulated, and the taxes that should be collected are also not collected.

The more challenging times are ahead. In those regions of Siberia with cheap electricity, mining farms have piled up to the point of overwhelming the power grid, leading over a dozen regions to directly impose mining bans. The government has now figured it out; to tackle the energy crisis, they first need to bring these hidden miners into the open and understand their situation in order to manage it accurately.

So this amnesty proposal is essentially playing a bigger game: exchanging immunity for data, turning the shadow economy into legitimate tax revenue, and conveniently addressing the power grid overload. Will it succeed? It depends on how subsequent policies are matched, but at least Russia genuinely wants to sort out the mining situation this time.