AZL General Discussion, page-7393

Arizona again cracks top 5 in the world in the Fraser Institue Investment Attractiveness Index.

1) Western Australia
2) Saskatchewan
3) Nevada
4) Alaska
5) Arizona

Annual survey of mining companies, 2021
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/annual-survey-of-mining-companies-2021.pdf

This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2021 annual survey of mining and exploration companies. The survey is an attempt to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulatory uncertainty affect exploration investment. The survey was circulated electronically to approximately 2,200 individuals between August 23rd to November 19th, 2021. Survey responses have been tallied to rank provinces, states, and countries according to the extent that public policy factors encourage or discourage mining investment.

A couple of comments from the report about Arizona below. Permitting process and times appear to be the major reason for its drop in rank from #2 in 2020 (we wouldnt know anything about that though, right?):

"Only 14 percent of respondents for Idaho indicated that the time to obtain an approved permit hadlengthened somewhat or considerably over the last 10 years—the lowest percentage for all surveyedjurisdictions. In contrast, 57 percent of respondents for Arizona claimed that permit approval timesare getting worse in the state"

New federal regulations around waterways in jurisdictions like Arizona are having animpact on the permitting process.—An exploration company, Company manager

Still made top 5 though.