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Nov 29, 2012 The copper mine controversy appears to have resonated in Myanmar because of the strong-arm tactics used against Ms. Aye Net, 34, and Ms. Thwe Thwe Win, 29. The two women are portrayed in weekly news magazines as being locked in a David-and-Goliath struggle, two unusually courageous villagers up against a constellation of powerful forces ...
Read MoreSep 25, 2012 Copper Mine Conspiracy Alleged. By extending production and diverting 338 tonnes of copper, rogue managers at Monywa copper mine allegedly tried to embezzle funds. But who gave the orders By Nyein Nyein 25 September 2012. A brother of the detained deputy operations manager at Monywa copper mine has called for justice, claiming that his brother ...
Read MoreNov 29, 2012 Riot police in Burma used incendiary phosphorus shells along with teargas and water cannon in an overnight operation to disperse thousands of villagers protesting against a vast copper mining ...
Read MoreDec 03, 2012 Eight people have appeared in courts in the Burmese city of Rangoon in connection with recent protests against a giant copper mine, activists say.
Read MoreFeb 01, 2013 Burmas largest copper mine is run by a Chinese company in cooperation with the Burmese military-owned Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Company Limited
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Read MoreMar 15, 2013 Aung Zaw, the editor of the widely-read Burmese online news journal Irrawaddy, said that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyis stance on the copper mine signaled a new era in Burmese politics.
Read MoreInvestment in Burmas mines provides the ruling junta with one of its largest sources of legal foreign capital, behind hydropower and gas. The Monywa area is rich in copper, and operations there had been dominated by Canadian giant Ivanhoe Mines until it allegedly withdrew in March 2007 and transferred ownership to The Monywa Trust.
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Read MoreChina Expresses Concern After Protests at Copper Mine. By Megha Rajagopalan. Reuters. 24 December 2014. BEIJING China expressed concern on Wednesday about a protest against a Chinese-run copper mine in Burma in which a person was killed and some were wounded saying China urged its companies abroad to act responsibly and protect the environment.
Read MoreDec 22, 2014 A crackdown on protesters at a Chinese-backed copper mine in Myanmar has left at least one person dead, the company that runs the project said today in a
Read MoreNov 29, 2012 Dozens hurt in Burma mine protest Police in Burma have used water cannon to break up a protest against the expansion of a copper mine near the central town of Monywa, activists say.
Read MoreApr 25, 2013 In pictures Burma copper mine protest. Published 29 November 2012. Burma learns to protest - against China. Published 24 January 2013. Top
Read MoreMar 12, 2013 Opponents of a copper mine worth nearly 1bn in north-western Burma have expressed outrage over a government-ordered report that said the project should continue and
Read MoreDec 31, 2020 Not all copper mines showed strong results in 2019. As expected, Grasberg copper-gold mine that was third largest copper operation in 2018, left the top 10 list in 2019. Production here dropped dramatically by 51 due to depletion of open-pit mining and transitioning to underground operations. 1. Escondida Chile. 1,158 kt.
Read MoreDec 01, 2012 Bangkok The government of Burma should promptly and impartially investigate alleged excessive force by local authorities against peaceful anti-copper mine protesters. On
Read MoreCopper mining . expand all. collapse all. WebsitesMultiple Documents. Title Burma mine protest Google search results Description About 23,400,000 results 15 December 2012 Sourcepublisher Various sources via Google. Date of entryupdate 2012-12-14. ...
Read MoreCopper was produced from the Monywa Mine, about 100 km west of Mandalay. The designed capacity of the mine and mill is 2.4 Mmta of ore and 60,000 mta of concentrate, respectively. For fiscal year 1992, the output of copper concentrate from the mine was estimated at 15,000 tons compared with 18,300 tons in 1991. In past years, Burma has been
Read MoreThe Letpadaung mine is part of the companys Monywa copper mine project, which consists of four copper deposits at Sabe, Kyeesin and Letpadaung mountain in the Monywa region of Sagaing Division. The mine is a joint venture between Wanbao and the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd UMEHL, a Burmese military-owned conglomerate.
Read MoreFeb 06, 2021 By The Irrawaddy 6 February 2021. YANGON Hundreds of Myanmar workers at the Chinese-back Kyisintaung copper mines in Sagaing Region have joined the civil disobedience movement against Myanmar s military coup. Around 300 out of 2,000 miners stopped work on Friday at the Kyisintaung copper mines in Monywa District, which has been a joint venture between the military-owned Myanma Economic Holding Public Co. Ltd. MEHL and Myanmar Yang Tse Copper
Read MoreNov 30, 2012 These contain substantial reserves of copper that have been mined since 1998, first by a Canadian company, Ivanhoe, and for the past year by Wanbao Mining,
Read MoreCFOB is particularly concerned about the Ivanhoe Mines project called the Monywa Copper Mine. Monywa pronouned Mo-yu-ah is a city located in Sagaing Division in the North-West part of Central Burma close to the mine site. Environmental damage is often an outcome of copper mining and the Monywa project is no exception.
Read MoreProtests against mining projects reveal contrasts in the political impact of resource extraction in Mongolia, an established 23 year-old democracy, and BurmaMyanmar, a liberalizing authoritarian state. Two similarities are apparent in the domestic tensions surrounding Mongolias Oyu Tolgoi and Burmas Letpadaung copper mines both governments and populations are keen to balance Chinese ...
Read MoreGem Mining in Burma. By Martin Ehrmann, C.G. The following article is reprinted by kind permission of Gems amp Gemology, in which the original appeared, Spring 1957 Volume IX, Number 1. Readers of Ehrmanns unpublished manuscript, The Ruby Mines of Mogok, will be on perhaps overly familiar terrain, but will have the opportunity, via the images, to put faces to names, and the visual to ...
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