Explorer takes proactive role in finding common ground for evolving REE play

摘要

One of the organisers of the PDAC show has reiterated the importance of having a thorough coromunity consultation process in place very early on in a project's life. Speaking a month earlier at the Association for Mineral Exploration (British Columbia)'s Minerals Exploration Round-up in Vancouver, Dr Bill Mercer of the Toronto-based Avalon Rare Metals Incorporated said his company had put together a "drill helper course" in Canada's Yellowknife district that involved the local First Nations groups, a non government organisation, the government and a number of educational institutions.