General Chapter:
1 New Policies, New Priorities: A Review of Mining and Minerals Policy and Legislative
Changes by Governments - Tom Eldridge, Mayer Brown International LLP 1
Country Question and Answer Chapters:
2 Angola VdA Vieira de Almeida: Joao Afonso Fialho & Marilia Frias 5
3 Armenia Concern Dialog law firm: Aram Orbelyan & Roustam Badasyan 11
4 Australia Allens: Gerard Woods & Daniel Knight 16
5 Brazil TozziniFreire Advogados: Luiz Fernando Visconti & Caio Mimessi Fransani 24
6 Canada Lawson Lundell LLP: Khaled Abdel-Barr & Karen MacMillan 31
7 Chile Claro & Cia.: Nicolas Eyzaguirre 42
8 Colombia Martinez Cordoba & Abogados Asociados: Adriana Martinez-Villegas 49
9 Congo - D.R. VdA Vieira de Almeida: Matthieu Le Roux & Olivier Bustin 56
10 Ethiopia Latournerie Wolfrom Avocats: Christopher Dempsey &
Johanna Cuvex-Micholin 62
11 Gabon Project Lawyers: Jean-Pierre Bozec 68
12 Ghana Reindorf Chambers: Fui S. Tsikata & Dominic Dziewornu Quashigah 75
13 Greenland Windahl Sandroos & Co.: Bo Sandroos 81
14 Indonesia Ali Budiardjo, Nugroho, Reksodiputro: Woody Pananto &
Freddy Karyadi 87
15 Ivory Coast Bile-Aka, Brizoua-Bi et Associes: Joachim Bile-Aka & Moussa Traore 99
16 Kazakhstan GRATA International: Yerbolat Yerkebulanov & Mikhail Abdulov 105
17 Kenya Kieti Advocates LLP: Clarice Wambua & Sammy Ndolo 113
18 Macedonia Georgi Dimitrov Attorneys: Katarina Ginoska & Marija Jankuloska 118
19 Mauritania Latournerie Wolfrom Avocats: Christopher Dempsey &
Johanna Cuvex-Micholin 124
20 Mexico RB Abogados: Enrique Rodriguez del Bosque 132
21 Mongolia GTs Advocates LLP: Zoljargal Dashnyam & Mend-Amar Narantsetseg 140
22 Mozambique TPLA - Taciana Peao Lopes & Advogados Associados:
Taciana Peao Lopes & Andre Cristiano Jose 148
23 Namibia Engling, Stritter & Partners: Axel Stritter 156
24 Poland Wolf Theiss: Ronald B. Given 167
25 Portugal VdA Vieira de Almeida: Manuel Protasio & Marilia Frias 174
26 Russia Melnitsky & Zakharov, Attorneys-at-Law: Grigory Zakharov
& Vadim Borodkin 180
27 Senegal Latournerie Wolfrom Avocats: Christopher Dempsey &
Johanna Cuvex-Micholin 189
28 South Africa Fasken Martineau: Godfrey Malesa & Nicola Jackson 196
29 Ukraine Redcliffe Partners: Dmytro Fedoruk &
Zoryana Sozanska-Matviychuk 204
30 United Kingdom Mayer Brown International LLP: Tom Eldridge 211
31 USA Mayer Brown LLP: Kevin L. Shaw & Daniel P. Whitmore 219
32 Vietnam Mayer Brown JSM: Nguyen Hai Thao & David Harrison 227
33 Zambia Eric Silwamba, Jalasi and Linyama Legal Practitioners:
Joseph Alexander Jalasi, Jr. & Eric Suwilanji Silwamba, S.C. 233
