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Chinese mining firm plans Siem Reap extraction

According to this news article published on 22 January 2013 by The Cambodia Daily, Khmer Holding, a group of companies that claimed vast mineral interests in Cambodia, had a license to extract mineral on 36 square kilometer of land in Chi Kreng district, Siem Reap province. The company had expected that they would get 1 million tons of copper and 20 tons of gold, which to be worth as much as $6 billion for copper and $800 million for gold at that time market prices.

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Field Value
Document type Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Language of document
  • English
Topics Mining
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Cambodia
Province(s)
  • Siem Reap
Copyright Yes
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License CC-BY-SA-4.0
Contact

The Cambodia Daily

Address: No. 7, Street 228, Phnom Penh Phone: 023 426 602 Email editor@cambodiadaily.com

Co-author (individual) Simon Lewis, Kaing Menghun
Publisher The Cambodia Daily
Publication date 2013
General note

The article also mentioned that Khmer Holding entered Cambodia in 2007.

Legacy reference document Khmer_Holding__07.02.2013.pdf
Date uploaded April 26, 2016, 09:35 (UTC)
Date modified June 24, 2017, 13:48 (UTC)