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Jobs bonanza for local communities as gold mine set to reopen

Local residents arrive at the Akara Resources gold mine in Thap Khlo district of Phichit province on Thursday to get job application forms. The mine is set to resume operations after being ordered closed on health and environmental grounds in 2016. (Photo: Sitthipoj Kebui)

PHICHIT: About one thousand local residents have already shown interest in working at the Akara Resources gold mine when it reopens soon, six years after it was closed on environmental and health grounds.

The general manager, Warong Saranritthichai, said the plant in tambon Khao Jed Look of Thap Khlo district had been undergoing a major overhaul for almost three months now, and planned to recruit people to fill 166 positions in 11 departments.

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