via Globe & Mail

(Old article) The globe reports on why Vale was engaged in work on its properties in Saskatchewan. Apparently the province had changed the rules for mineral tenure last spring.

"Vale’s increased activity in Saskatchewan comes as the provincial government changed its mineral policies this March to ensure that companies don’t sit on projects forever.

Under former rules, there was no requirement for companies to develop a resource. Today, companies that do not develop the resource will not be allowed to continue to lease the land after a certain time period.

“Our policies now encourage development of the resource” said Cory Hughes, Saskatchewan’s executive director of mineral policy."

The province is complicit in a policy of complete secrecy as regards developments in The La Ronge Gold Project.

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-F6