Mining blogs about: law

Kenndy as mining expert offers advice to Ontario & Indians

Shamelessly trading on his famous name, a junior member of the Kennedy clan who is a lawyer working for The Natural Resource Defence Council has sent a “terse” letter to the Premier of Ontario telling him to snap to attention and change the 1800s law that enables Vancouver-based mining juniors to go onto aboriginal-claimed lands to [...]

Ecuador’s new mining law lauded: where to find the good news

Here is a link to an interesting site I have not hitherto seen.   Found it while searching for blog comments on Ecuador’s new mining law.  Sadly my Spanish is no where good enough to read the law, but then if you are investing in mines in South American, no doubt you are fluent in that [...]

Ontario versus the Indians: your law versus my law?and we all fall down

From an Aboriginal I know and respect.   He forwarded me the e-mail repeated below from the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty:   
From: dmcguinty@premier.gov.on.ca    Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:17:37 -0400
Conversation: An e-mail from the Premier of Ontario    Subject: An e-mail from the Premier of Ontario
Thank you for writing to me regarding the incarceration of Robert Lovelace of [...]

British Columbia Mining Week: Glass, Brass, and Pass the $

This week is Mining Week in British Columbia.  Some of the events include:

PricewaterhouseCoopers (one word!) releases their 2007 Annual Report on the BC mining Industry:  $988 per table of eight non-members at the Marriott.
Also at the Marriott, the Mining Suppliers, Contractors and Consultants Association of BC meet on Tuesday.  If you need to ask more, [...]

US and Canadian soldiers die in Afghanistan so tribal leaders and the Chinese can mine for gold

Tribes fighting tribes for control of resources, for revenge, and for the shear thrill of being young and vicious.  Here is a haunting picture from the New Yorker that has just published a superb piece by Jared Diamond in which he traces the deeds of Daniel Wemp in the New Guinea Highlands as he goes [...]

Money, inflation, deflation, and gold

Money, inflation, deflation, and gold
by John Lee, CFA
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05/02/2008
Money serves as a medium of exchange and store of value. Price provides an important clearing mechanism in a society. Here we are going to explore the interesting dynamics between money and price.
In a free market, when the quantity of money is fixed, the fact that the [...]