For the eight consecutive year, leading expert in the mining field ARIFA partner Roy C. Durling provides insight into the Panamanian jurisdiction for this area of practice, its unprecedented growth and the current Panamanian administration's efforts to modernize mining legislation.

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This article was first published in LATIN LAWYER Reference - Mining (Contributing Editor: Carolina Walther-Meade - Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP).

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