Mining directory launched

JAKARTA (JP): Publishing company Gold Group Asia/Pacific Ltd and partners have published a directory on the country's mineral exploration and mining companies.

PT Citra Buana Masindo, one of Gold Group's partners in publishing the Indonesian Minerals Exploration and Mining Directory 1999/2000, said the book contained data on operating mines, foreign exploration projects, mining license holders in the country, collected in three years of research.

"The book... is a comprehensive and accurate 'snapshot' of an industry in a consolidation phase," the statement said.

The book and the CD-ROM version costs US$740, the statement said.

Gold Group and Citra Buana published the directory in cooperation with the Asian Journal of Mining, the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Australian Trade Commission in Jakarta. (jsk)