RE:Congo mining regulations to be signed into law on FridayThis was expected. Yet it's not the end of the story. The government can exercise discretion in the application of the new Mining Law. Pre-existing 10 year agreements can still be honoured without breaking the new law. There is a clear path, where the new mining law can co-exist with prior stability agreements. In fact, that would be the only legal outcome under international law. So this news doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know.