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At least 5 gold mines in M'sia are under foreign
listed companies
By
CHOONG EN HAN
han@thestar.com.my
han@thestar.com.my
PETALING
JAYA: While gold mining is not a new business activity in Malaysia, it does not
seem to have any significant domestic capital market participation.
But the
striking fact remains that at least five of the country's gold mines are part
of the assets of many listed companies abroad.
Among them
is a Raub mine operated by Raub Australian Gold Mining Sdn Bhd,
which in turn is a subsidiary of Peninsular Gold Ltd, listed
on London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market.
The company
is under the control of Datuk Seri Andrew Kam Tai Yeow
with a 29.5% stake, who is also its chairman and chief executive.
Peninsular
Gold is the only listed gold company with assets in Malaysia that is managed by
locals, while the others seem to have foreign ownership (partly) and
management.
But although
profitable, Peninsular Gold's earnings are paltry for now.
For its
six-months ended December 2011, the company recorded a net profit of £86,049
(RM421,734) on revenue of £6.805mil (RM33.35mil). The year before, it reported
a profit of £657,283 (RM3.22mil) on revenue of £14.19mil (RM69.54mil). Its
market capitalisation stands at around £18mil (RM88mil).
Peninsular
Gold's plans have been to use better technology in the extraction of gold at
its Raub plant, which has a proven reserve of 202,000 ounces of gold.
Industry
experts say there are three major mines in Malaysia located in Raub, Penjom and
Selinsing, in Pahang.
Since June
2011, the Penjom mine has changed ownership. Norwegian Avocet Mining PLC
divested its interest in the mine, which is now under the wings of privately
held PT Bukit Makmur Mandiri Utama,
Indonesia's second-largest mining contractor.
Details of
the mine has been off the radar but according to last known data, the mine had
produced 39,150 ounces of gold for the nine-months ended Sept, 2010.
The
Selinsing mine, operated by Canada's Monument Mining Ltd, is
another well-established gold mine, with a production of 44,585 ounces of gold
recorded for its year ended June 2012. The mine lays claim to having one of the
lowest production costs at US$306 (RM930) per ounce.
Monument
Mining is also exploring other mining projects in the country, including the
Mengapur polymetalic project near Sri Jaya, Pahang. The mine is said to have
deposits of copper, sulphur, iron, gold and silver.
Another
interesting miner is Singapore-listed CNMC Goldmine Holdings Ltd
which has the rights to the 2,370 acres Sokor gold field. CNMC reckons that
this gold field is the most prospective but undeveloped hard rock gold mining
area in Malaysia.
In June,
CNMC announced its gold reserves rose by 20% to 82,000 ounces.
CNMC is
founded by one Lin Xiang Xiong, a Chinese national who is the chief advisor for
China International Trade to the Kelantan state government.
For its six
months ended June, the company recorded a net profit of US$482,646 (RM1.46mil)
on a revenue of US$5.178mil (RM15.74mil).
Over in East
Malaysia, a new kid on the block has emerged in the form of Canadian firm Olympus Pacific Minerals Inc.
Olympus acquired the 1,400-sq-km Bau gold project as a result of the merger
with Zedex Minerals Ltd in 2009,
and now has a 83.25% interest in the project.
The project
has 560,000 ounces of indicated gold and another 1.89 million ounces of
inferred gold.
The Bau
region is a historic gold field with many geological similarities to the Carlin
District of Northern Nevada, which is one of the world's largest gold fields.
Largely
focused in South-East Asia, Olympus is the largest gold producer in Vietnam and
operates several underground narrow vein gold mines and an open-pit gold mine
at its two production sites in Vietnam. It also has a gold field in the
Philippines.
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