Mining Law Committee home

• Committee sessions in Madrid
• Model mineral development agreement project
• Featured publications - article about the committee from African Power, Mining and Oil Review; committee newsletter

From the Chair, Peter Leon, Webber Wentzel, Johannesburg:

• 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!

Forthcoming project - model mineral development agreement:

• 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.

Featured publications:

• 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.
  
• Mining Law Committee newsletter April 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, Hubert André-Dumont.
  Newsletter guidelines for authors

NB The deadline for submissions has now passed. Scholarship recipients will be announced in due course.

This year the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) Section will again award a scholarship to a young lawyer who wishes to participate in the IBA Annual Conference, but may find financial difficulties in doing so. The scholarship award for 2009 includes the following:

• Free registration for the IBA 2009 Annual Conference, 4-9 October 2009, Madrid, Spain.
• A contribution towards travel costs to the conference.
• A contribution towards accommodation costs while attending the conference.
• Two year's free membership of the IBA, LPD and PPID including membership of one committee within the awarding section and one free PPID constituent.
• A waiver of either the next IBA Annual Conference registration fee or the registration fee of one of the chosen committees' specialist conferences in 2010.
• Free membership of the Scholarship Alumni Group.

For further information and criteria for applying for the scholarship please download the Scholarship Application Form here.

NB The deadline for submissions has now passed. Scholarship recipients will be announced in due course.