Company Delcom (Kampuchea) PTE. LTD.
Company profile DELCOM (KAMPUCHEA) PTE. LTD. is Foreign-Cambodian owned corporation (Cambodia-China), registered at the Ministry of Commerce on 08 January 2010. The company received a mining license from the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy for conducting gold mine research under Letter No. 969 as of 01 October 2009. The company plans to invest $ 2.45 million to build gold production system, basic infrastructure and other road constructions.
Registration investment capital KHR 500,000,000
Company registration date 8-Jan-10
Company registration code Co.0045KH/2010
Director Mr. Nhem Thary
Director residence Khmer-China
Company address # 26, Street 604, Sangkat Boeung Kok II, Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Penh
Status of the EIA reports Initial study
State agency Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy
Site Phnom Daek area, Romtum commune, Rovieng district, Preah Vihear province. The concession can be accessed from Trapeang Totuem village, an intersection from National Road No. 62, about 10 kilometers to Delcom (Kampuchea) PTE. LTD. along the path to Romdeng village.
Village Not found
Commune Romtum
District Rovieng
Province Preah Vihear
Contract duration 99 years
Size in Hectare 100
Type of concession Gold exploration
EIA company Green Consultancy Group Co., Ltd.
Backgrounds of EIA company Not found
Address of EIAs company Not found
Relevants law Law on Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Management
Land law
Labor Law
Law on the Management and Exploitation of Mineral Resources
Law on Fisheries
The Law on Biosafety
Forestry Law
Law on Water Resources Management in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Sub-decree on environmental impact assessment
Sub-decree on monitoring of pollution of water
Sub-decree on solid waste management
Sub-Decree on the Control of Air Pollution and Noise Disturbance
Revenues and expenditures Not found
Social alnd environmental impacts The place where DelcoThe place where Delcom (Kampuchea) Pte.Ltd. plans to build factories and residences for mining workers is about 2 hectares. Besides, mine exploration with noise and vibration from machines does not disturb the lives of people living in that area. Once the whole project is fully operated, it will bring significant benefits to social and economic development for both local and national communities.
Employment opportunity Not found
Public participation On 12 August 2010, a discussion meeting was participated by 12 people from government and private sectors, and representatives of Delcome (Kampuchea) PTE.LTD at Preah Vihear Provincial Hall to present the Initial Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Report.
Land converted from Based on the analysis of the changes of forest cover in the entire concession areas in the past 14 years using the UNDP Dataset in 1992-93, 1996-97 and FA GIS Dataset in 2002 and 2006, the forest cover across the mining concession area have been lost to 90 hectares or equivalent to 90 percent of the total forest cover areas (or evergreen forest).
Environmental management plan The mining concession area is small (100 hectares). The ecological resources are dry? mixed? deciduous? forest and semi-degraded. The gold mine exploration and exploitation project is considered to be a medium scale project or Category B. After mining
the company will rehabilitate the land and reforest it (one year require), so the area will again be covered with forest cover.
Development plan The project planned to import mining grinding machine with a capacity of milling of 125 microns of mines and capable of breaking 3,000 tons of gold per month. Build office (accommodation of the site director, key staffs, kitchen, pits, mining wells, workshop, storage of generator, storage of chemical substances, storage of explosives, mining wastewater treatment site, and mining transportation system. The company plans to invest 2.45 million dollars in preparing gold productivity system, local infrastructures, and road constructions.
Mitigation strategies According to project management measures, the project owner is responsible for the environmental management of the project, while the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy and the provincial authorities monitor the implementation of the project. The mitigation strategies are reforestation after the site and the mine's pit are closed .Continuity of noise and vibration released by the machinery and hunting through the implementation of some measures surrounding the pits bunker prohibits or strictly instructs the workers and the armed forces employed at there not to hunt for food. Reducing toxic emissions must be installed on all plants. Reduce soil erosion impacts in the extraction stage of extraction of rock and waste disposal etc.
Environmental and social funds Not found
EIA publication year 2011

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[Draft] Initial Environmental and social impact assessment: Gold exploitation project of DELCOM (KAMPUCHEA) PTE. LTD
DELCOM (KAMPUCHEA) PTE. LTD, a Cambodian-Chinese owned company, has studied on a gold mining project in Phnom Daek area, Romtum commune, Rovieng district, Preah Vihear province, initially investing 500,000,000 Riels with land area of 100 hectares. The company plans to add USD 2.45 million to improve the gold production system, basic infrastructure and road construction.