抄録
During the past decade, there is a fundamental change in mining policy in many developing contries. The new role of governments as for mineral resources shifted from being both owner-opetator and referee to that of lessorregulator. Due to sucessful mining sector policy reform, such as in Chile, Peru, Argentine, Ghana, and Tanzania, these countries have increased significant amounts of foreign direct investment in mineral exploration and development activities. This paper describes the basic policy of mining legislation and taxation, and outlines the frameworks to attract private mineral investment in the countries.
