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To: goldsheet who wrote (55035)	1/5/2008 3:55:28 PM
From: loantech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78427

California scores ahead of Peru. I like it.

To: goldsheet who wrote (55035)	1/6/2008 1:15:35 AM
From: pocotrader	Respond to of 78427

Goldsheet, Thanks for posting that survey, I think it will be a useful tool when one is trying to decide whether its safe to invest in any area of the world. poco

To: goldsheet who wrote (55035)	1/6/2008 11:59:56 AM
From: PaperPerson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78427

Since I have a couple of companies working in Ontario -- Kodiak KXL and Premier Gold PG -- I looked up the province. Ontario dropped from ninth to 20th place as to "best policy environments in the world for mining investment." EXTRACT FROM PRESS RELEASE ON FRASER SITE, MARCH 5 2007 COVERING THE NEWEST SURVEY: "The Canadian picture "This year’s report represents the first time since the 2001/2002 survey that British Columbia has not marked an improvement in its ranking. Its ranking of 30th overall is down from the 23rd place it scored in 2005/2006. This makes British Columbia the lowest ranked of the Canadian provinces, although it is still ranked above the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. However, it’s worth noting that Nunavut improved its ranking to 39th from 53rd and the Northwest Territories rose to 41st from 52nd. "The Atlantic Provinces also showed significant upward movement, with New Brunswick moving to sixth overall from 18th, Nova Scotia improving to 17th from 35th and Newfoundland and Labrador rising to 22nd from 39th. The Yukon was the lone other Canadian territory to improve, rising to 11th from 21st last year. "The remaining Canadian provinces all saw their rankings decrease. Although they remain in the top 10 overall, Quebec fell to seventh from fifth while Saskatchewan dropped to 10th from seventh. Ontario fell out of the top 10 altogether, dropping to 20th from ninth last year. “The major movement in the top 10 shows three Australian jurisdictions moving upward – South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, supplanting Ontario, Mexico and Chile,” McMahon said. “The rise of Australia again reinforces how jurisdictions must be prepared to compete on an international basis to attract mining investment.” fraserinstitute.org Regards, Michael

To: goldsheet who wrote (55035)	1/7/2008 2:36:41 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78427

Good piece eh, i've seen it before but not for a while ... they should have another out before long, it'll be interesting to see what changes the year has brought us My contest pick has hopes for operating in Venezuela, lol ... and ya never know, ya just never know In the hobby on which we are here engaged, we are the exploiters, and might as well get used to it ... intelligent exploitation in this day and age means making sure that the locals are considerably better off for our presence in their lands - this means in assessing competence of management, we need to ensure that they see this clearly, negotiate reasonable terms, we can't have them giving away the farm but we can't have them pissing off the natives either, there's a balance in it ... Greenstone screwed up bigtime years ago, where was that, Honduras maybe, asshole mine foreman got on a D8 and started bulldozing people and homes, poof no more mining there for them And sometimes the natives are just not going to be reasonable for awhile, trick is to suss that out in advance, send your money elsewhere