The purpose is to establish First Nations receive benefits from the development of mineral resources.
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It is one of the poorest countries in Africa, despite its considerable mineral resources.
Experts reckon over 90% of mineral resources in India are unexplored and need investment.
His rather slow-witted replacement maintains the fiction that the clans respect the government's ownership of mineral resources.
Separatist rebels fighting for autonomy and an increased share of mineral resources have frequently targeted pipelines in the gas-rich province.
State Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms is a hearing examiner and cannot comment on the drilling permit application.
At stake are territorial waters and mineral resources symbols of China's drive for hegemony and an outburst of national egotism.
Future prospects are indeed enticing: besides the unexploited mineral resources, business-process outsourcing is booming, already employing some 600, 000 people.
They own the land, and they are paid dividends from the vast mineral resources in this part of the state.
We do discover new mineral resources, we do develop new extraction technologies, which make larger amounts of mineral resources available to us.
The country -- a long strip that spans the western coast of South America -- is rich in mineral resources, particularly copper.
These include the expansion of existing facilities as well as certain green field projects, leveraging the massive amount of mineral resources the company controls.
Eastern DR Congo has suffered from two decades of violence linked to ethnic rivalries and competition for the control of the area's rich mineral resources.
Furthermore, any mineral resources extracted from public land are royalty free.
The environmental group says it will lodge an appeal with the Department of Mineral Resources if fracking is permitted or if exploration licenses are awarded.
Public mineral resources become private the minute you pull them from the ground, meaning the only costs incurred from mining on public land are operating expenses.
Securing trade routes through Afghanistan to Central Asia and its vast hydrocarbon and mineral resources will lead foreigners to try to do business with the Taliban.
The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources figures that state's portion of the basin has 11 billion recoverable barrels--up from the 2 billion the department estimated in 2008.
He was involved in gambling, drug trafficking, illegal arms sales and extraction of mineral resources, it said, and controlled organized crime groups in Moscow and across the country.
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State Mineral Resources officials who will make a recommendation to the state Industrial Commission have scheduled a permit hearing March 28, according to the Tribune and The Dickinson Press.
They will own forest and mineral resources and the right to revenues from them, plus a 26% share of the salmon fishery and tax revenue from other commercial activities.
On the one hand, this should also give them a better chance of using a mineral resources boom to raise living standards in a country that remains desperately poor.
Another key area that has been a cause of concern, especially among miners, has been the introduction of taxes such as the mineral resources rent tax (MRRT) and the carbon tax.
Propelled by its need to secure oil, natural gas and mineral resources to maintain its double-digit economic growth, China has become Africa's third-largest trading partner, behind only France and the United States.
Similarly, Africa should see the United States as a role model and shift its policy attention toward industrial development, starting with adding value to agricultural and mineral resources through aggressive industrial policy.
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" "Exploitation of Congo's mineral resources continues to exacerbate conflict and instability on the ground and consumers are still largely in the dark as to whether or not their products are conflict free.
Probable mineral reserves stand total 18 million carats with 17.5 million carats as inferred mineral resources, and 23.5 to 48.5 million carats classified as non-resource exploration upside with an initial 11 year mine life.
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Lucky (if ironic) for them, nearly half of goods exports are in energy and mineral resources, where the sky's the limit these days, but that leaves plenty else to sell in tougher world markets.
These same sites also host large metal deposits, which could become essential mineral resources for us in the future and some of these same systems may even reveal how life first originated -- on Earth and beyond.
Fan Xiao, chief engineer at the Sichuan Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, told Global Times on Monday that the huge pressure of large reservoirs built on the fault line may have induced the Ya'an earthquakes and the more powerful Wenchuan earthquake in 2008.
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