A CRA team was retained to advise a Chinese company that was involved in a dispute with the Government of Mongolia over the rights to a significant iron ore property in Mongolia. The CRA team analyzed the value of the deposit based on a likely development profile that was based on a similar deposit located nearby. The client used this analysis to re-acquire the rights to the deposit through negotiations and arbitration.
Mining arbitrations in practice: Filing trends, shifting geography, and claimant recovery
Building on CRA’s 2023 study of disputes involving mineral assets, Tiago Duarte-Silva and Swati Kanoria examine over 150 investor-State mining arbitrations...