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APR-JUN 2017

The ASIA Miner - Reporting Important Issues to Mining Companies in the Asia Pacific Region

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Volume 14 • Issue 2 | 2017 | ASIA Miner | 1 Features Future for coal China will remain the major influence on the coal industry for some time as urbanisation and capitalisation continue, albeit at a slower pace than during the mining boom. Japan and South Korea are strong players while emerging economies in India and South East Asia are increasingly important. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Indonesia The coal resurgence has benefitted Indonesia's mining industry and the major coal producing nation intends to produce more in 2017. Improved prices have also boosted many of the archipelago's other mining enterprises. . . . . . . . . . . 14 Information The adoption of innovations in IT will be very important for the mining industry as the cycle swings upward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Leading Developments The December 2016 quarter was the third consecutive quarter of growth in exploration expenditure, according to BDO's Explorer Quarterly Cash Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Waste to Policy changes in recent years have created renewed interest in generating energy from waste and Australia is now considered, to be a potential growth market. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Around the Region China Shandong Gold Group has discovered gold deposits that could be the largest in China. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 With its BNU mine operating, TerraCom is focusing on plans for a coal handling & processing plant. . . . . . . . . . . 30 Papua New Guinea K92 Mining is working on an underground incline drive to the Kora deposit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Philippines Medusa Mining is progressing its five focus areas of development at Co-O Gold Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Cambodia Emerald Resources expects a positive outcome for a DFS for the Okvau Gold Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Laos Copper production from the Sepon project continues to encourage MMG Limited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Thailand A second lithium trend has been identified at the Reung Kiet project of Viking Mines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 India Lionsgold Limited is close to making a decision to mine at the Jonnagiri Gold Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Chaarat Gold Holdings has raised funds to advance its Tulkubash Heap Leach Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Russia Tigers Realm Resources is ramping up operations at Project F of the Amaam Coking Coal Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 The coal industry upturn has created thousands of jobs and provided fresh hope to mining communities and fami- lies whose fortunes nose-dived as prices plunged in 2014. In Australia the revital- isation has been of most benefit in the coal mining regions of New South Wales and in Queensland's Bowen Basin, where the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has major operations. See page 8. Photo courtesy BHP Billiton. DEPARTMENTS Advertisers' Index . . . . . . . . . . 55 Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . 41 Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 From the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 On the Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Product News . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Supplier News . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Subscription Form . . . . . . . . . . 55 Volume 14 | Issue 2 | Industry Technical Information | 矿业技术信息 coal powers on 印度尼西亚矿业 废料中的能源 信息技术 Bukit Asam to lift production . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Cat longwall for Datong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Increase in Kun-Manie resource . . . . . . . . 46

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