Ministry findings hint at illegal gold mining in Ratanakkiri

An investigating team from the Ministry of Mines and Energy has concluded that evidence at Chhay Ching Heang Group’s operations in Ratanakkiri province seemingly points to illegal gold mining, though lab results from minerals extracted by the company are still pending, according to a ministry ...

Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-findings-hint-illegal-gold-mining-ratanakkiri

Australian firms in JV for exploratory drilling

Renaissance Minerals and Emerald Resources finalised a joint venture agreement and commenced exploratory drilling near the Okvau gold deposit in Mondulkiri province. ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/australian-firms-jv-exploratory-drilling

Blue river buys into Cambodian gold hunt

Canadian mineral exploration company Angkor Gold Corp has signed an agreement with Vancouver-based junior mining firm Blue River Resources Ltd to fund exploration of its gold prospects in northeastern Cambodia, the company said in a press release yesterday. ...

Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/blue-river-buys-cambodian-gold-hunt

Geopacific reports solid year at Kou Sa project

Australian mining firm Geopacific Resources Ltd completed a successful and productive drilling season last year at its Kou Sa gold and copper project in northern Cambodia, the firm said in its annual report, released yesterday.   ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/geopacific-reports-solid-year-kou-sa-project

Australian police expand Cambodia probe of OZ minerals

Authorities in Australia have expanded the scope of their investigation into bribery allegations involving the relatives of Cambodian government officials and the former Cambodian operations of Australian miner OZ Minerals, the firm has announced.   ...

Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/australian-police-expand-cambodia-probe-of-oz-minerals-111397/

Battambang man dies in old gold-mining pit

Conflicting versions of events emerged yesterday after a Battambang man was found dead in a disused gold-mining pit in the province’s Phnom Proek district.   ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-man-dies-old-gold-mining-pit

Emerald takes a new direction with Cambodia gold JV

ASX-listed Emerald on Wednesday announced that it had signed a farm-in and joint venture (JV) agreement with fellow-listed Renaissance Minerals to earn a majority interest in a Cambodian gold project. ...

Esmarie Swanepoel
http://www.miningweekly.com/article/emerald-takes-a-new-direction-with-cambodia-gold-jv-2016-03-30

Geopacific shines on latest test drill results

Australian mining firm Geopacific Resources Ltd has made a new discovery of high-grade gold and silver mineralisation during exploratory drilling at a remote site in northern Cambodia, the company said in an announcement yesterday.   ...

Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/geopacific-shines-latest-test-drill-results

Unlicensed Battambang goldmine shut down again, officials say

An unlicensed goldmine in Battambang province’s Phnom Proek district has been shut down again, officials and an investigator with rights-group Adhoc said. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22396/unlisensed-battambang-goldmine-shut-down-again--officials-say/

Geopacific’s mine purchase terms amended

An Australian mining firm exploring a significant copper and gold deposit in northern Cambodia has reached an agreement with the tenement’s former owner to amend the terms of its 2013 acquisition of the project, it said this week. ...

Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/geopacifics-mine-purchase-terms-amended

Australian gold miner divests Cambodian subsidiary

Australia-listed Southern Gold has completed its divestment of its Cambodia’s subsidiary Southern Gold Asia, saying there was little interest among its investors in the company and that it would focus on its Cannon gold mine in Western Australia, according to a press release from the ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21152/australian-gold-miner-divests-cambodian-subsidiary/

Villagers worry despite mining company promises

An Indian company planning to extract 500 tons of rock per day from beneath Pheak village in O Yadauv, Ratanakiri this year has promised locals, again, that their digging will have little effect on the mine’s surrounding forest and homes, and that they will replace ...

Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20549/villagers-worry-despite-mining-company-promises/

Officials raid four ‘anarchic’ gold mines in Prey Lang forest

About 70 officials raided four illegal gold mines in Kompong Thom province’s Sandan district on Wednesday but made no arrests as all the camps had been abandoned, officials said on Thursday. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-raid-four-anarchic-gold-mines-in-prey-lang-forest-103865/

Gov’t says Chinese gold mine in Mondolkiri needs local consent

An official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy has confirmed that a Chinese company is applying for a license to extract gold from a 100-hectare plot in Mondolkiri province, but insisted that the project would only go forward with the consent of local, small-scale ...

Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-says-chinese-gold-mine-in-mondolkiri-needs-local-consent-103029/

Mining firms gear up for big season

With the rainy season petering out, mining companies are gearing up to resume full operations on prospects in northern and eastern Cambodia, with investors keeping a close watch as firms push to expand their resource estimates and the country prepares to open its first royalty-bearing ...

Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mining-firms-gear-big-season

Mesco set to draw first gold from Ratanakkiri mine

Mesco Gold has established the required surface-level infrastructure and is awaiting government approval to begin the extraction of gold at its Phum Syarung mine in Ratanakkiri province, the company’s director said yesterday.The Indian mining firm is poised to become the first operational commercial mine in ...

Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mesco-set-draw-first-gold-ratanakkiri-mine

Police raid 3 Ratanakkiri gold mines

Police on Thursday raided three illegal gold mines in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district believed to have been operated by undocumented Vietnamese migrants, but made no arrests as all the camps had been abandoned, possibly just hours earlier. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-raid-3-ratanakkiri-gold-mines-95428/

Cambodian official urges provincial government to shutter illegal gold mine

A top mining official on Wednesday urged the government of northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province to crack down on a group of Vietnamese running an illegal gold mining operation villagers and rights groups say is being protected by local authorities. ...

Ratha Visal, Hang Savyouth and Sort Sokphrana
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/mine-09232015163105.html

Going straight in the 'forest of gold'

Until recently, the illegal mining community at the remote village of Poutung did their digging at risk of arrest. They have since become the first to be given official sanction. But operating under the law has its own challengesUntil a month ago, Poutung village was ...

Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/miners-going-straight-mondulkiris-forest-gold

PFS lowers capital cost estimates for Renaissance’s Cambodia gold project

The PFS estimated that the project would require capital investment of $120-million, which was down from the $133-million estimated in the 2014 scoping study, while life-of-mine cash costs also decreased from the $735/oz estimated in the scoping study, to $684/oz. ...

Esmarie Swanepoel
http://www.miningweekly.com/article/pfs-lowers-capital-cost-estimates-for-renaissances-cambodia-gold-project-2015-07-27

Illegal mining op halted in preserve

Pailin provincial authorities are searching for a suspect who allegedly commissioned the excavation of a gold mine on land the protection of which is funded by the foundation of American actress Angelina Jolie. Provincial environmental police are holding three men at a spot where they were ...

Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-mining-op-halted-preserve

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