Modernize the mining act and end the free-for-all!

Editorial BY JOHN BERGENSKE AND GEORGE HEYMAN The Association for Mineral Exploration BC holds its annual conference in Vancouver this week, complete with a field trip to a coal mine and a sold-out workshop called "So You Want to Be A Director --How to Stay Out of Jail." The conference is aptly called "Go for the Gold and Everything Else." It's a fitting title because B.C.'s antiquated Mineral Tenure Act allows mining exploration companies easy and preferential access to virtually every corner of our province -- even private land -- with the comparatively small geographical exception of parks, ecological reserves and urban areas. Read the rest of the article here.