Company records in Singapore and Australia show he owns 238,000 shares, or about 0.37% of Access Asia Mining, through a company called Ruck & Maul Pty Ltd, which is the trustee of his family trust.
The Myanmar Mining Rules, Chapters XVII-XXII, are the principal rules for health and safety, and labour laws applicable to the mining industry. Generally, a mine employee must be over 18 years of ...
The official language of Myanmar, also known as Burma and the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, is Burmese. To understand the root cause of the name confusion, one must first understand the local …
Australian mining company Myanmar Metals Limited (MYL) has divested its entire stake in a historic mining project in Myanmar's northeast, saying the "political situation in Myanmar has undermined …
Chinese companies mining rare earth minerals in Myanmar's Kachin State have promised to halt activities after more than 1,000 local residents protested, acknowledging the environmental damage ...
By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI. Updated 9:53 PM PST, August 13, 2023. BANGKOK (AP) — A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar left more than 30 people missing, and a search and rescue operation was underway on Monday, a rescue official said. The incident occurred in Hpakant, a remote mountainous town in Kachin …
Rare earth mining | UDaily. A new study by the University of Delaware used remote sensing techniques to look at changes in mining surface footprints between 2005 and 2020 in two rare earth mines located on either side of the Myanmar-China border, within Kachin State in northern Myanmar and Nujiang Prefecture in Yunnan Province in …
Unlawful Killings. News. Canadian and Chinese mining interests have profited from, and in some cases colluded with the Myanmar authorities in serious human rights abuses and illegal activity around the Monywa copper mine complex, which includes the notorious Letpadaung mine, Amnesty International said in a report released today.
The United Nations in Myanmar issued a statement saying it was "deeply saddened by the terrible loss of life due to a massive landslide at a mining site in Hpakant Township in Kachin State on ...
The 50 km2 Monywa copper district lies near the Chindwin River within the northward continuation of the Sunda‐Andaman magmatic arc through western Myanmar. There are four deposits; Sabetaung, Sabetaung South, Kyisintaung, and the much larger Letpadaung 7 km to the southeast. Following exploration drilling which began in 1959, …
First published on Tue 21 Dec 2021 23.41 EST. At least one person is dead and dozens more are missing after a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, a member of a rescue team has said. The ...
Australian companies in Myanmar. There are about 50 Australian firms operating in Myanmar in the energy, mining, financial services, education and construction sectors. ANZ, Blupe and Woodside are the best-known. The former economic counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Yangon, Nick Cumpston, explaining why the …
When Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won the historic 2015 elections, some observers wondered if it would resolve one of her country's most symbolic issues on the international …
Myanmar. An internally displaced family in Kayah (Karenni) State, eastern Myanmar (near the border with Thailand). Since the military takeover in February 2021, the Southeast Asian country is mired in conflict. Thousands of civilians have been killed, public institutions have collapsed, and the economy is in a state of disarray.
In July last year, more than 170 people, many of them migrants, died in one of the worst disasters in Hpakant after a pile of mining waste collapsed into a lake. Myanmar produces 90 percent of the ...
The Monywa copper mine is located in Myanmar (22 • 07 N, 95 • 02 E) and is one of the largest secondary copper-sulfide mines in Asia [13, 14]. The newly operated Letpadaung ore body has an ore ...
The Myanmar ban has to date had little impact on either China's production of refined tin or the tin price. China's smelters lifted output by 5.6% year-on-year to 130,000 metric tons, according to ...
Bawdwin lead-silver project is a combined open-pit and underground project being developed in Myanmar. The developer of the project is Bawdwin Joint Venture (Bawdwin JV), a consortium between Myanmar Metals (51%), Win Myint Mo Industries (WMM) (24.5%), and EAP Global (EAP, 24.5%). The project involves …
A creek in Myanmar's Kachin State is lined with trash and construction debris from a former rare earth mining site, in a 2022 photo provided by Global Witness. …
Reaching Bhamo, a town on the banks of the Irrawaddy, Myanmar's longest river, he began mining gold and earning $4 per day. He uses a generator-powered …
One year on from the February 1st military coup in Myanmar, violence and devastating harm to civilians by State military forces continues to intensify across the country. Last year (2021), Action ...
by Alex Shaw on 22 February 2024. Pro-democracy activists urge Australian government action against domestic companies they say are funding Myanmar's …
The best known of the Myanmar Pb-Zn deposits is that at Bawdwin, which was a world-class mine until the early 1940s but, as described in the introduction to this chapter, is now only an open-cut ...
The report, based on a six-month-long investigation of satellite imagery and local community interviews, shows that the number of rare earth mines in Myanmar's Kachin state proliferated from a ...
The nominal GDP in fiscal year 2019 was $69.3 billion (MMK105 trillion).1 The mining and quarrying sector contributed 5.4% of the GDP in 2019 compared with 4.8% in 2018. The mineral industry employed approximately 118,000 people in 2019 (Asian Development Bank, 2020; Central Statistical Organization, 2020d; Khin Moe Moe, Director of Central ...
Opposition to the military coup has boosted ethnic armed groups, creating a new challenge to its mining operations. ... Myanmar's annual jade and gems emporium, held from April 1 to 10, brought ...
Tumbling underwater, he managed to reach the surface, swimming for half an hour before finding land. "I thought I would die," said the miner, Ko Aung Kyaw Htay, 23, on Friday, a day after the ...
The Myanmar ban has to date had little impact on either China's production of refined tin or the tin price. China's smelters lifted output by 5.6% year-on-year to 130,000 metric tons, according to ...
by Alex Shaw on 22 February 2024. Pro-democracy activists urge Australian government action against domestic companies they say are funding Myanmar's military junta, citing environmental and ...
The erosion of the protection of civilians has been of particular concern, as conflict comes amidst a reduction in humanitarian actors on the ground due to COVID-19. UNICEF's Mine Action in Myanmar Factsheet for quarter one of 2020, echoes this alarming trend. Figures show the number of victims countrywide reaching more than 40% of the total ...
The Letpadaung copper mine shows that the Chinese company Myanmar Wanbao Mining Copper Limited (or Wanbao) initially tended to work within the framework of local institutions and business partners affiliated with Myanmar's long-standing military junta before the democratic opening in 2011. However, during the democratic opening, …
The 21-year-old was hard at work in one of the world's largest jade mines, in Kachin State in northern Myanmar. He was just one of hundreds of jade pickers in the pits that day.
The answer to what one should call the Southeast Asian country depends on whom you ask. Everyone can agree that it was Burma up until 1989 when the military junta enacted the Adaptation of Expression Law. This decreed English transliteration changes of geographic locations, including Burma, becoming Myanmar and the capital Rangoon …
By September 2020, Australian investment in Myanmar was world-leading – 39 per cent of international permits, or 11, had gone to Australia, surpassing China (36 per cent), Thailand (11 per cent ...
The Myanmar authorities must immediately halt operations at a giant copper mine co-owned by a Chinese company and the Myanmar military, which continues to be plagued by human rights abuses, Amnesty International said today in a new report. The Letpadaung mine is operated by Wanbao Mining, a subsidiary of NORINCO, a Chinese …