of importance to anyone who invests in shares of mining companies that have their proposed field operations in British Columbia - and when I think back to postings over the past few years on G.-E. Gold Forum and then more recently here on Goldtent, a fair number of TA charts have been posted for companies whose business plan is based on a PM or copper or other mineral reserve in British Columbia.

The key point of the link below, in my opinion, is that of the approximately 800 oustanding specific treaty claims in Canada today 352 of them are in British Columbia, more than in any other province in Canada. 

TA charts may look great at times for someone’s favorite PM or metal company planning operations in this province, but I think that an evaluation of the fundamentals should include one’s personal judgement on how  aboriginal land claims are going to be resolved in the vicinity of any one specific proposed mine location.  That criterion is certainly one factor that I put into my decisions before buying shares of a company proposing mine development in British Columbia.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070630.BCNATIVE30/TPStory/?query=native+relations