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		The objective of the Mining Law Committee is to promote an interchange of information, ideas and views, and knowledge among individual members of the committee as well as international practitioners, as to the laws, practices and procedures affecting mineral and mining in the global legal community.

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Welcome to the Mining Law Committee's web pages. The committee's current activities are obviously now focused on the IBA's Annual Conference in Madrid (4–9 October 2009), where the issue of a best practice regulatory model for the international mining industry will be the subject of a joint session together with the African Regional Forum, the Latin American Regional Forum and the Public Law Section.

The committee will also be hosting sessions on water resources for the mining industry, indigenous mining agreements and financing of new mining projects. I very much hope that you will join us in Madrid!

July 2009: The committee has begun work on a major project to produce a model mineral development agreement, based on international best practice, for use in the developing world. While members of the committee are involved in this project, international experts in their field will provide outside advice to the committee.

Mining Law Committee Newsletter August 2009
The committee publishes a quarterly newsletter on matters of current interest, to which contributions are most welcome. In order to contribute, please contact the newsletter editor, handredumont@mcguirewoods.com.
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Article on Committee Chair, Peter Leon and the Mining Law Committee in African Power, Mining and Oil Review, second quarter 2009
Chair Peter Leon announces the committee's new project on a best practice regulatory model for the international mining industry and describes the connection of the project to security of tenure, a need for such model in Africa as well as to the sustainability of the industry.

The North Sea Energy Law Programme is an advanced programme for practitioners covering all aspects of energy law. It is offered by the Universities of Groningen (the Netherlands), Oslo (Norway), Aberdeen (UK) and Copenhagen (Denmark). The programme is structured to accommodate the busy professional through concentrated periods of teaching. Each of the four courses is taught in two-week blocks and the first block begins in late September 2009. Click here for more information

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