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title: 'Does regulation impede innovation in mining? Part 1: technical innovation'
url: 'https://www.inspire-resources.ca/blog/does-regulation-impede-innovation-in-mining'
markdown: 'https://www.inspire-resources.ca/blog/does-regulation-impede-innovation-in-mining.md'
date: '2025-02-10'
description: '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) argument th…'
taxonomy:
  archives_month:
    - feb_2025
  archives_year:
    - '2025'
---

# Does regulation impede innovation in mining? Part 1: technical innovation

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