By Andy Reynolds

In the previous article, I offered some indirect causal linkages between investor protection regulations and the well-known systemic problem of incorporating new technologies into mines and their process plants. Now I turn my attention to a much bigger issue: business model inno...

By Andy Reynolds

Does investor-protection regulation such as Canada’s National Instrument 43-101 (or by equivalence JORC, or SAMREC) create obstacles to innovation in mining? This is a perennial debate that rarely gets the in-depth treatment it deserves.

Let me first accept the (trite) argumen...