west Africa (i.e. Mali) one of the BEST jurisdictions...Renowned investor Michael Gentile remarks in a January 3 interview:
“I’ll tell you... west Africa from a mine-buider perspective is probably one of the BEST jurisdictions in the entire world to go from discovery to first production. Those countries are pro-mining. They need the cash; they want the jobs; they want the development in their country. So you can make a discovery in West Africa today and you can probably be in production three years from now. Whereas if you’re talking about Canada it’s a seven to ten year process if you’re lucky. And it’s the same thing for the U.S. So I’m quite favorable to West Africa because if you know your jurisdictional risk and say, well, it’s very unlikely your mines are going to get stopped politically, the permitting process is very favorable, and a lot of the geopolitical noise is just that – just noise. Very seldom it ever interrupts operations, which is what really matters to investors.”