AME BC reports progress made on key policy issues amid rising commodity tide

Optimism has returned to the junior exploration industry, based on changed market fundamentals and more buoyant commodity prices, the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) president and CEO Gavin Dirom tells Mining Weekly Online in an interview. “It’s amazing what difference a year makes, because it was really tough last year. Perhaps metrics will prove that last January was when the TSX turned, signalling investments starting to come back to the industry, but this year the atmosphere is alive with investors actively interested in grassroots projects," Dirom said on the sidelines of the association’s yearly Roundup convention, held in Vancouver, and which about 6 000 delegates attended this week.