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of a new local clinic with an ambulance and emergency capability .
As well as it ’ s prioritisation of the local community ’ s benefit from the project , Myanmar Metals is also ensuring environmental impact is limited . The Joint Venture is currently conducting a year-long environmental and social impact assessment as part of its corporate social responsibility strategy . “ We ’ ve got Coffey-Valentis leading the assessment for us . It includes all manner of metal testing , baseline measurements , water quality and soil quality sampling ,” says Lamb . Following feasibility work , which will finish at the end of this year , a foreign investment permit is expected to be in place by March next year . This can lead to construction commencing by mid-2020 , with production set to launch in late 2021 . The company and its partners anticipate pilot scale production that could commence as early as 2019 to be around 200,000 tonnes of ore per annum , with full scale production set to reach 2mn tonnes when the new mine and mill are commissioned in 2021 .
“ The study also requires an enormous amount of consultation – to
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