Indian miner sets 2016 target for extraction of gold in Cambodia’s R’kiri
Indian mining firm Mesco Gold will begin mining a gold field in Cambodia’s northeastern Ratanikiri province by early 2016, according to a company statement released yesterday.
If it begins extracting successfully, Mesco Gold, which is owned by the Indian company Mesco Steel, would effectively become Cambodia’s first operational mine.
“This will be a great project for Mesco, Angkor and for the people of Cambodia,” said Mesco chairman JK Singh in a statement released by Angkor Gold, which owns the 12-square-kilometre economic land concession that Mesco bought mining rights to in 2013.
