• Administrative and legislative monitoring on various issues affecting the hard rock mining industry.

Duration: June 1, 2017 to present

General Issues: Environmental/Superfund, Minting/Money/Gold Standard, Natural Resources, Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)

Spending: about $40,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2017: Energy - Dept of, Defense - Dept of (DOD), U.S. Senate, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Related Foreign Entities: Barrick Gold Corporation (Toronto, CAN); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 100%