The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (Amec) has welcomed the Western Australian government’s decision to turbocharge regulatory reforms in order to boost economic recovery.
The state government on Friday announced that state laws would …
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The Australian resources sector has welcomed the release of the interim report into the independent review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.
The interim report sets out preliminary views on the EPBC Act and how i…
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Mining law firm Fasken is helping the Minerals Council South Africa’s Junior and Emerging Miner’s Desk compile a submission to the National Treasury regarding the introduction of a local tax incentive.
The local tax incentive is based on the Canadian…
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Australia’s mining industry needed at least A$7-billion of annual investment to maintain existing production, the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) said on Monday.
In its submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Tra…
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The Australian oil and gas industry has called for a green tape reform to support investment confidence and to rebuild the Australian economy post Covid-19.
A survey of more than 100 of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association…
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The Covid-19 pandemic has allowed the mining industry to highlight and strengthen its role as a catalyst of social development in the areas in which it operates, Minsur CEO Juan Luis Krueger said on Monday. Krueger was speaking during an Internationa…
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A group made up of activists and regional officials submitted on Friday a request for a judicial review of Indonesia’s mining law at the Constitutional Court, arguing there had been a failure of procedures before the law was approved by parliament in …
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Canadian gold major Barrick has initiated proceedings before the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) over Papua New Guinea’s decision not to extend a special mining lease (SML) for the Porgera joint venture (…
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Trade union Solidarity has called on the Minerals Council South Africa and the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) to negotiate and reach an agreement out of court around ownership and the “once empowered, always empowered” principle. Thi…
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The Western Australian state government has amended the state’s mining regulations to assist tenement holders to apply for expenditure exemption amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Under the revised regulations, tenement holders could now apply for expenditur…
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