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 or remove the extracted rock when they are finished mining what may be up to a million ounces of gold from the area. Moreover, Mesco Gold has renewed their promises of English teachers, jobs, a school, and a road for the Jarai inhabitants of Pheak. …
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