Damages from mine to cost at least $4m

20 January 2012
The Cambodia Daily
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The government said yesterday that a gold mine in Kompong Cham province that has damaged about 1 square km of land with chemical waste would cost at least $4 million to clean up. Speaking at a workshop in Phnom Penh on revenue transparency, Sim Sisokhaly, director of the mineral resources department in the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) said that the mine in Mermot district has caused widespread environmental damage in the area. The area has been mined since 1985 and operations have resulted in chemicals running into irrigation systems for rice fields…