This is from a Pretium article in the Vancouver Sun. I thought it was interesting about the tax credit. It is very expensive and necessary so it does make sense they might ask for a tax credit.

The Vancouver Sun reports in its Tuesday edition mineral explorers are asking the B.C. government to compensate them for consulting with aboriginals before they start drilling. The Sun's Barbara Yaffe quotes Gavin Dirom at the Association for Mineral Exploration as saying, "There is a huge cost to consulting with first nations." Mr. Dirom estimates a tax credit would cost taxpayers $10-million to $30-million a year. His association will soon release an Aboriginal Engagement Guidebook, "to provide principled guidance and practical advice to mineral explorers in B.C." The publication notes: "Mineral exploration today requires achieving a social licence to operate among the first nations on whose traditional territories they are exploring. The key to engagement is to get in early and start a conversation. Spend time with all of them and find out who the influential people and decision makers are." Mr. Dirom points to geologist Robert Quartermain, chief executive officer of Pretium Resources. Mr. Quartermain is learning greetings and other phrases in Gitxsan, Gitanyow, Nisga'a and Skii km Lax Ha, to better communicate with natives in Northern B.C., where the company is developing the Brucejack gold project.