AKIPRESS.COM - The top ten most attractive jurisdictions for mining investment worldwide include (from the top) Sweden, Finland, Canada's Alberta, Ireland, Wyoming, Western Australia, New Brunswick, Nevada, Newfoundland & Labrador, and Norway, according to the he yearly global survey of mining executives released by the Canadian public policy think-tank Fraser Institute, reported Mining Weekly.

The ten least attractive jurisdictions for investment worldwide (from the bottom) are Kyrgyzstan, Venezuela, Philippines, Argentina — La Rioja, Angola, Argentina —Mendoza, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Indonesia and Madagascar.

The exploration budgets reported by companies participating in the survey totalled $4.6-billion in 2012 and $3.4-billion in 2013.