Cambodia entered the ranks of the world’s gold producers with the start of output in the Okvau region of Keo Seima district in Modulkiri province where Australian mining company, Renaissance Minerals, has carried out 14 years of exploration and research. Its Cambodian subsidiary aims to produce three tonnes of pure gold a year over an eight-year agreement with the Cambodian government. The mine employs 462 workers, 427 of whom are Cambodians.

 

Speaking at an official ceremony yesterday, Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem said Cambodia had been waiting for decades to produce gold.

 

“The inauguration of gold mining production is an answer to the wait,” he said, adding that the gold would be extracted “with responsibility to all interests, the economy, society and the environment to serve the country’s economic and social development”.

 

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Good on yer Aussies - From retired Gold Assayer!