In 2006, Cambodia’s mineral resources remained, to a large extent, unexplored. During the past 3 years, however, foreign investors from Australia, China, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and the United States began to express their interest in Cambodia’s mineral potential for offshore oil and gas as well as such land-based metallic minerals as bauxite, copper, gold, and iron ore, and such industrial minerals as gemstones and limestone.

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