Table of Contents

Introduction 5
Darrell W Podowski
Jennifer Poirier
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Confidentiality and standstill agreements in the mining industry 7
Fred R Pletcher
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Preliminary agreements 51
Dawn G Meidinger
Sarah A Strunk
Fennemore Craig, PC

Option agreements in the mining industry 63
Shea Small
Roger Taplin
Adam D Wanke
McCarthy Tétrault

Joint ventures 75
Stuart MacGregor
Marie-Christine Moon
Clayton Utz

Aboriginal law 91
Arend Hoekstra
Thomas Isaac
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

The life of a mining project: effective diagnosis of a social licence to operate 115
Jordi G Ventura
Ventura & Associates LLC

The emerging international framework for mineral development 135
Luke Danielson
Sustainable Development Strategies Group

Mining capital finance – traditional and alternative mechanisms 167
Brian P Dominique
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Patrick Petzall
Formerly of Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Project finance in the mining industry 187
David Budd
Carla Potter
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Sale and purchase of mining projects 207
Darrell W Podowski
Jennifer Poirier
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Felipe Allende
Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana Abogados

Mine decommissioning and reclamation 227
Scot Anderson
Hogan Lovells

About the authors 251