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THE GOLD MINING PROJECT IN MALAYSIA
Introduction

Prospecting a gold mine is different from prospecting a tin mine. Normally its all depend on luck. If your luck is good (good luck), you can get the "gold road". If no luck, you cannot get or expect anything.

The Founder

Mr. Woon Pok Tian, 49 years old is an experienced owner of one of the biggest Malaysian gold mining field. He has about 600 acres of gold mining field which is located at Raub, Pahang. The average gold production for this area is at least above 300 grams per month.

Since chilhood, Mr. Woon and sisters' workwd as 'miner' for placer gold in Raub. Formerly this gold mining area belonged to an Australian Company. At 60s', when the gold price dropped and the production costs become ingtoo high, it was not profitable at all to cover the overhead expenses. Further more in the land toppled incident, a lot of people died. Therefore these situation had really forced the Australian Company to stop the project and went back to Australia.

In 1974 Mr. Woon managed to get the prospecting permit which allowed him to take over this gold mining project. At present he has employed about 150 workers to successfully assist him in this project. Last time he only had 20-30 workers, working under him. He then slowly build-up the business. Now the business is already stable.

Recently the Pahang State Government had issued the mining license or certificate to his company, which approved them to continue mining until year 2021.

The Gold Mining Process

The method that normally used in prospecting the gold mine is an "open-air" condition method. This method is believed to be in a very low profile for accident. Besides that, the production costs also is not really high.

The gold mining process here is simple : 1. Firstly you have to smash the stones which contain gold. 2. Then use the 'case machine' to carry the smashed stones and brought it to the factory. 3. After that, take these stones and put it in a 'separator' machine', which will smash all the stones into small pieces (placer gold). 4. Then mix these placer gold with water. The gold will remain downearth while the unwanted things will be thrown outside. 5. The pacer gold hae to be send to another 'separator machine' to separate it once again. 6. After that the clean gold will be then sent to the laboratory to refine it into pure gold (fined gold). 7. After the completion of the processing process, this pure gold is available for local market.

The Gold Mining Prospect

The pure gold from this area is always available for local market. The quality of this gold product is also said to be in higher grde than the overseas production.

Now our Malaysian gold market supplies are lower than the market demand. If the gold product still had its market, therefore the gold mining area can still continue its operation (on operation) for another 30 years and above.

Other Prospect Area

Now at Prai, Kelantan also can be found the gold ore mining field (area). The gold produced from this area are categories as 999.6-999.8 of gold.

Written by, Shaikha Mazlifah Bee Binti Shaikh Ibrahim, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 29 November 1991