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Representative Natural Resources Projects
- Acted as U.S. counsel, including providing mineral title review, for American Vanadium Corporation’s Gibellini Vanadium Project in Nevada. For more information, visit http://www.americanvanadium.com/pdf/2011/NR_3-22-2011.pdf.
- Due diligence for an international client regarding $80 million equity investment in a world-class Nevada molybdenum property.
- Acquisition of numerous gold properties in Nevada and other western states, ranging from several million dollars to $1.7 billion for a 40% interest.
- Prevailing counsel in State v. Mathis, 223 P.3d 1119 (Utah 2009), resulting in payment of $5.1 million to client in mineral estate ownership dispute with the State of Utah.
- Negotiated, documented and closed the sale of 42,401 acre-feet of Utah water rights for $80 million. Considered to be the largest sale of water rights (in terms of both volume and price) by a private seller in Utah history.
- Negotiated, documented and closed the sale of an iron mine property in Utah for $10 million.
- Prepared hundreds of leases, earn-in agreements, and joint venture agreements for development of mineral properties in all of the western states and Canada.
- Modified water rights for use in a gas-fired power plant in Utah and then negotiated, documented and closed the sale of those rights to the plant owner for $14 million.
- Acquisition of an operating gold property near Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Due diligence regarding a commercial gold mine in South Carolina.
- Representation of public entities in connection with geothermal energy development in Utah.
- Analysis of title and preparation of title reports to secure financing for expansion of a large operating gold mine in Imperial County, California.
- Due diligence for the acquisition of water rights for an 897-acre, multi-million dollar ranch on the upper Provo River in Utah.
- Regulatory compliance representation for an underground trona mine in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
- Acquisition of development rights for platinum deposits in Nevada and Idaho.
- Successful six-year litigation of gold mine ownership dispute in Utah.
- Sale of perlite mining operation in Oneida County, Idaho.
- Due diligence and title analysis regarding uranium properties in Wyoming and Utah.
- Secured operating entitlements for the recovery of salt, potassium and magnesium from brines of the Great Salt Lake.
- Acquisition of a commercial gemstone mining operation in Beaver County, Utah.
- Title analysis and other due diligence for numerous coal, oil shale and tar sands properties in Utah.
- Due diligence for the acquisition of water rights for a 3,000-acre ranch in the Hobble Creek area of Utah County.
- Acquisition of an underground salt mine in Sanpete County, Utah, and representation in subsequent commercial matters.
- Title reports for silver properties in Utah and Nevada.
- Analysis of water rights and preparation of water rights title report for acquisition of a Park City ski resort.
- Regulatory compliance representation for an underground fertilizer mine in Eddy County, New Mexico.
- Acquisition of development rights for various copper properties in Utah.
- Successful litigation to secure historic access rights for isolated ranch property in Summit County, Utah.
- Title analysis of an historic gold property in Granite County, Montana.
- Acquisition of development rights for a vermiculite property in Clark County, Nevada.
- Analysis of title and preparation of title reports to secure financing for resumed commercial operation of gold mines in Esmeralda and Mineral Counties, Nevada.
- Title analysis of federal, state and private oil and gas properties.
