Licensing and consents - Mining
Title and licensing issues are essential to the operation of a mining project and your ability to secure its financing. It is first essential that you fully understand the local legal regime - concentrating on documentary evidence is not sufficient.
Norton Rose Group’s global team of mining experts are drawn from our offices across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Canada, Kazakhstan and the Asia Pacific region, including Australia. Multinational companies value our ability to work across multiple jurisdictions through our own offices or with local counsel. We can help you to determine whether title to a project has been validly granted, whether consents and approvals have been obtained, and can guide you through the practicalities of obtaining such consents, often within tight deadlines.
Our experience of reviewing minerals legislation and negotiating concession, development or joint venture agreements with governments (or government agencies) across the globe enables us to advise you on how mining and fiscal regimes operate in many jurisdictions and what the likely roadblocks will be.
We offer you
- a global network of offices and alliances
- understanding of mining and minerals legislation in the key mining jurisdictions
- specialist country guides and a global mining convention comparator analysing key provisions and issues
- pre-eminent knowledge of the international mining industry