Legal Services for Mineral Resources, Mining, and Gold Exploration
Al-Radwan Law Firm for Legal Consultations and Arbitration provides integrated legal services to companies and investors operating in mineral resources, mining, gold exploration, and related industries.
Our services cover the entire mining project lifecycle—from bidding, licensing, exploration, and resource development through extraction, processing, manufacturing, marketing, export, mine closure, and site rehabilitation.
Our advice is provided in accordance with the Egyptian Constitution, Mineral Resources Law No. 198 of 2014 as amended by Law No. 145 of 2019, Law No. 87 of 2025, the Executive Regulations and their amendments, and the applicable environmental, investment, employment, tax, customs, and international legal frameworks.
Our services include:
- Legal and regulatory advice on the exploration and exploitation of gold, precious and base metals, industrial minerals, quarries, and salterns.
- Preparing and reviewing bidding documents, exploration licenses, exploitation agreements, and mining concessions.
- Representing investors before the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, the Egyptian Mineral Resources and Mining Industries Authority, and other competent authorities.
- Drafting drilling, geological services, airborne survey, laboratory testing, and technical services agreements.
- Preparing extraction, processing, concentration, refining, smelting, and manufacturing contracts.
- Drafting joint operating, participation, partnership, and mining joint venture agreements.
- Preparing contracts for equipment procurement, engineering, construction, operation, maintenance, transportation, and storage.
- Drafting agreements for the sale, marketing, supply, and export of gold, minerals, ores, and processed mining products.
- Establishing mining companies and joint ventures and regulating relationships between investors, operators, and contractors.
- Conducting legal due diligence on mining areas, licenses, mineral titles, reserves, and land-use rights.
- Advising on acquisitions, interest transfers, license assignments, and changes of control.
- Reviewing royalties, rentals, financial obligations, taxation, and customs treatment.
- Obtaining environmental approvals and reviewing environmental impact assessments, hazardous materials, and waste-management requirements.
- Advising on occupational health and safety and the employment of Egyptian and foreign personnel.
- Preparing legal frameworks for mine closure, facility removal, land rehabilitation, and environmental remediation.
- Developing compliance, anti-corruption, and geological and technical data protection policies.
Mining Disputes and Arbitration
We represent clients in disputes arising from exploration and exploitation licenses, mining concessions, drilling and construction contracts, supply agreements, royalties, rentals, interest transfers, geological data ownership, reserve assessments, pollution, and environmental damage.
Our services include negotiation, mediation, litigation, and domestic or international arbitration, as well as investment dispute advice and the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards under Egyptian law, bilateral investment treaties, the New York Convention, and the ICSID Convention.
Al-Radwan Law Firm combines legal expertise with a practical understanding of the mining industry to protect investments, secure contractual rights, reduce regulatory risks, and ensure compliance with Egyptian legislation and international responsible-mining standards.
