CHAPTER 13 REGULATION OF INDUSTRIAL MINERALS - ISLAND NATIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN

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International Mining Law and Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Apr 2005)
CHAPTER 13
REGULATION OF INDUSTRIAL MINERALS - ISLAND NATIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN
Ian Anthony
Lex Caribbean
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Ian Anthony is an attorney at law with the regional law firm Lex Caribbean. His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, international business transactions, and energy law.

Ian has done professional volunteer assignments with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) at Vienna, Austria on specific Caribbean research relating to International Commercial Arbitration and the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.

Prior to working at Lex Caribbean, Ian worked as an international business consultant and also served for ten years as a member of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.

Ian graduated in law with honours from the University of Wolverhampton in England and holds a Masters of Law with distinction from the Centre for Energy Petroleum Mineral Law and Policy at Dundee University in Scotland.

Regulation of Industrial Minerals - Island Nations of the Caribbean

International Mining Law and Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation International Bar Association

Lima, Peru, April 2005

Outline of Presentation

□ Introduction

□ Issues Associated with Mining Regulation

□ The Way Forward

□ Conclusion

The Mining of Industrial Minerals in the Caribbean

Definition: "Industrial Mineral" means:

"basalt, clay, dolomite, granite, gypsum, laterite, limestone, marble, sand, sandstone or salt, used for agriculture, building, road making or industrial purposes ..."

Mines and Mineral Act 1996, Dominica.

"any material, such as clay, sand, limestone, sandstone or other stones, commonly used for the purpose of road making or for building or for the manufacture of any article used in the construction of buildings where such material does not...