Last year's mining law in effect expropriated ownership of land from private miners.
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Under an obscure 1866 mining law, roads and paths established long ago may be re-opened, even if they are now in national parks.
For example, Turkish mining law is investment-friendly, as there is little bureaucratic control, an easy permitting process, and lower fees, and allows broader activities for companies involved in mining gold, copper and boron.
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Tom West, who represents Norse in the challenge to Dryden's zoning law, said he'll argue that the Frew Run case, which involved a gravel mine, doesn't apply because the state mining law is fundamentally different from the oil and gas statutes.
Goldberg, who is representing Dryden, argues that the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled in a case known as "Frew Run" that a law regulating the mining industry did not pre-empt local zoning even when that zoning banned the industry from within town borders.
In June the Swedish Parliament voted into law a data-mining programme strongly backed by the defence ministry.
Under the UN's Convention on the Law of the Sea, mining rights on the ocean floor are controlled by a little-known body, the International Seabed Authority, which since 2001 has issued 13 licences - with another six in prospect.
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That was the year the government was formulating a draft mining charter, proposing that companies be at least 26% black-owned in order to get a government mining license. (The draft became law in 2005.) Since then Motsepe has diversified, swallowing up or forming partnerships with several other old mining companies and adding a swath of minerals: precious metals (platinum and its cousins), nickel, chrome, iron, manganese and coal.
I. mining Facebook have people thinking more seriously about how law enforcement goes about collecting information online.
For example, many mining corporations operate in countries where the rule of law is not applied in a fair way by local governments.
Unless the Minister of State for Indigenisation and Empowerment alters the share allotment, the law would mean that several banks, mining companies and phone companies -- among other foreign businesses -- will have to relinquish control.
Many people have little choice but to earn a living by logging or mining, sometimes within the forests that are protected by law.
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Mining has always had an awkward relationship with morality and the law, so perhaps the mutterings against Mr Reinhart should not surprise anyone.
Those considered to be strategic sectors are the energy sector in all its forms, non-renewable natural resources, transport, hydrocarbons, mining, bio-diversity, water and other sectors that the law may determine.
It involves, notably, enforcing the law (in particular laws concerning nature conservation and the mining code), making sites secure, reinforcing the operational capacity of the Congolese Wildlife Authority, reducing commercial poaching, stopping the illicit exploitation of natural resources and strengthening the efforts of peaceful evacuation of illegal occupants of protected areas.
The first part of what has gone wrong here is that in order to stop these few militias from mining these metals a system has been proposed, then legislated into law, which insists that everyone in the world must track, and be able to prove that they have tracked, where their supplies of these minor metals come from.
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In the meantime, just enjoy the spectacle and relax people for mining bitcoin, holding bitcoin, sending bitcoin, and receiving bitcoin is not against the law in any country in the world.
The Bush administration is urging the Senate to consent this summer to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the complex and sprawling treaty that governs shipping, navigation, mining, fishing and other ocean activities.
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It rejects the Helms-Burton law en bloc, growling at America's ban on entry for executives of one Canadian mining company.
His first job after law school was in the legal department at Amax, then one of the world's biggest mining companies.
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