The resilience and strategic importance of the global mining industry continues, as the industry balances climate change, community and environmental concerns with an ever growing demand for strategic minerals.

The global mining industry has gone from strength to strength in recent years due to a number of factors, including new demand for battery minerals and related base metals to meet forecast production of eVehicles and the transition to renewable energy, strong demand for gold due to geopolitical and pandemic uncertainty, as well as demand for iron ore required for unprecedented infrastructure development.

Dentons is the largest law firm in the world with local offices in all of the key traditional markets such as North America and Australia with an unmatched and growing presence in developing mining jurisdictions throughout Africa and the Americas.

Now more than ever, investors and project developers need clear professional assistance to navigate the complex legal considerations that need to be complied with in the ever-changing global mining landscape. Our Global Mining Group members work collaboratively and provide comprehensive and multijurisdictional advice that is catered to helping our clients achieve their goals.

This Global Mining Guide provides a high-level overview to assist you in assessing how to Grow, Protect, Operate and Finance mining projects around the world. This Guide covers:

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you be interested to meet the Dentons team in a particular jurisdiction.

We hope you will find the Dentons Global Mining Guide useful and we look forward to working with you in the near future. 

Download the full guide or click below for chapters dedicated to individual jurisdictions.

Please note that the laws of each jurisdiction are regularly revised and changed, so the statements made in this guide are not definitive. However, this Guide does provide a summary of the current state of law at the date of publication, and will serve as a useful introduction to assist investors and project developers identify relevant considerations and distinctions in the jurisdictions covered. This Guide does not constitute legal advice or a legal opinion. Specific legal advice should be sought for your circumstances.