The Regulation on the Implementation of Mining Activities was published in the Official Gazette dated 6 November 2010 and numbered 27751. The Regulation sets forth the implementation of procedures and principles relating to the application of the Mining Law (Law No.3213). The Regulation contains:

(i) procedures and principles regarding the granting of licenses and certificates, mineral exploration, operating periods processes, changes of license areas, audit and control of activities, discovery rights, desertion, assignment and transition processes, principles of exploration and exploitation within the mining, documents to be issued by licensees, payable charges, permits to be obtained in order to engage in activities, mining register and expropriation processes;

(ii) processes to be implemented in public investments as mineral exploration and operating activities, as well as state and provincial routes, roads, railways, airports, ports, dams, power plants, petroleum and natural gas, geothermal pipelines and facilities, water conveyance lines hindering each other, mineral exploration and mining activities becoming impossible due to practices of public corporations and institution as well as failure to find alternative areas for public and private investments; and the

(iii) granting of permits for the production of construction raw materials to be used by public corporations and institutions for projects as roads, bridges, dams, ponds, and ports, etc.