It takes five years to acquire the exploration license.

The ultimate result of an area selection process is the pegging or notification of exploration licenses, known as tenements.

The legislation specified energy companies would begin drilling within three years of the date of the issue of an exploration license.

The nearest planet with any kind of population pressure was Ba¡a; Starways Congress granted them the exploration license.

Since then, QP has encouraged foreign operators to apply for exploration licenses.

The Gottesberg area hosted also tin mines and is today under exploration license by a private German exploration company.

The mine is owned by London Mining which also owns an exploration license covering 319 km2.

However, in late November 2011, Syrian authorities granted the company an extension of its exploration license in the country despite the suspension.

Some companies are supposedly winning backroom deals for new exploration licenses and other benefits by capping domestic prices, he said.

In 1938, the company was granted an exploration license.