Mining & Metals
USA Guide 2024 : USA - Nationwide
Band 3
About
Provided by Stoel Rives LLP
The mining industry faces volatile market conditions along with complex and overlapping federal, state, and local laws impacting operations. Stoel Rives offers a highly experienced and industry-savvy team that advises mining companies across a broad range of issues faced in operating and growing their businesses. Our team includes attorneys and staff who are geologists, landmen, and former state and federal environmental agency officials. We offer clients valuable counsel through our combined understanding of the business of mining, the perspective of our former regulatory enforcers, and our nationally recognized prowess in environmental law. As lead counsel for aggregate, base and precious metal, industrial mineral, and coal mines, Stoel Rives effectively traverses environmental, permitting, land use, labor and employment, transactional, and financing hurdles on our industry clients’ behalf.
Our work for mining clients encompasses work across our practices, and our attorneys’ expertise and understanding of their colleagues’ work and experience result in close collaboration and significant advantages to our clients in time and cost savings. Our mining practice is called upon for guidance in multiple key areas, including the following.
- Land Use and Permitting
- Environmental Compliance and Defense
- Corporate and Transaction Services
- Litigation
Chambers Review
Stoel Rives is well respected for its full-service mining practice. The firm boast a team with a broad swathe of experience in operational and transactional issues including permitting, mineral rights, land issues and project financing. The team is particularly active on behalf of clients with operations in Alaska and Idaho.
Notable Practitioners
Ramona Monroe is relied upon by many of Alaska's most prominent mineral companies for her broad mining expertise. She is experienced in handling transactional matters alongside associated compliance and due diligence issues.
"Ramona's knowledge of the mining industry makes her an incredible asset."
"She is a fantastic mining lawyer."