There’s been a few major developments with government entities in the mining sector in the past few weeks.
In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission released guidance regarding its position on conflict mineral disclosures under the Dodd-Frank Act.
The FAQs for that are available here.
On Wednesday, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed to sign on the G8 initiative that is “aimed at improving corporate transparency and cracking down on international corruption in the mining and oil and gas sectors.” The new reporting requirements will seek to bring Canada more in line with other G8 countries.
The complete article on this is available here.
