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Todd Stone: BC Mining Crisis-DRIPA Delays Threaten Future Projects in Spite of Record Spend of $751M
Join Todd Stone, President and CEO of the Association of Mineral Exploration of British Columbia (AME BC), as he breaks down the 2025 mineral exploration landscape: $751M spent (up 36% YoY), but heavily skewed to the Golden Triangle with just 4% in the southeast and 2% southwest—slipping BC to 4th behind Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec. Dive into DRIPA's (Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act) major impacts: permitting delays up to 5-8 months, regulatory red tape stalling projects, and the Premier's recent refusal to amend amid industry frustration. We discuss AME's amendment…
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