Don Weinland and May Kunmakara
Photo by: Don Weinland
Cambodian miners from the China-Cambodia Company ride atop a mining load to a processing plant in Prey Meas Village, in Mondulkiri province. The company is known to local officials as Rong Chheng.
Cambodian miners from the China-Cambodia Company ride atop a mining load to a processing plant in Prey Meas Village, in Mondulkiri province. The company is known to local officials as Rong Chheng.
Phnom Penh Post
Flat-nosed shovels scrape muddy rock from a mining cart into the bed of a Russian-built truck. Two Cambodian miners apply buckets of water to the shiny fragments of stone under the direction of a Chinese technician. Twenty metres away, men appear from a hole in the earth, the entrance to the China-Cambodia Company gold mine, which has reportedly operated for six years in the remote village of Prey Meas, Mondulkiri province.
The legal standing of mines such as this is shrouded in ambiguity, industry experts said, and contradictions concerning the name, origin and status of several of the country’s mines are rife.
Weak enforcement of mining laws excludes local communities from the decision-making process and smudges the revenue transparency, said George Boden, a campaigner at watchdog group Global Witness. Read the full article at Phnom Penh Post.
Flat-nosed shovels scrape muddy rock from a mining cart into the bed of a Russian-built truck. Two Cambodian miners apply buckets of water to the shiny fragments of stone under the direction of a Chinese technician. Twenty metres away, men appear from a hole in the earth, the entrance to the China-Cambodia Company gold mine, which has reportedly operated for six years in the remote village of Prey Meas, Mondulkiri province.
The legal standing of mines such as this is shrouded in ambiguity, industry experts said, and contradictions concerning the name, origin and status of several of the country’s mines are rife.
Weak enforcement of mining laws excludes local communities from the decision-making process and smudges the revenue transparency, said George Boden, a campaigner at watchdog group Global Witness. Read the full article at Phnom Penh Post.
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