Salingyi Township is a township in
Yinmabin District
Yinmabin District ( my, ယင်းမာပင်ခရိုင်) is a newly created district in southern Sagaing Division, Burma (Myanmar); which was formerly part of Monywa District. Its administrative center is the city of Yinmabin.
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in the
Sagaing Division
Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...
of
Myanmar
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.
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Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) The principal town is
Salingyi
Salingyi is a town in Salingyi Township, Monywa District, Sagaing Region in Myanmar. It is the administrative seat for Salingyi Township, and is at a tri-crossroads with roads heading north-west to Yinmabin, north to Monywa, and south-west to K ...
.
Over of farmland have been confiscated in the township to establish a
copper mine
Copper extraction refers to the methods used to obtain copper from its ores. The conversion of copper consists of a series of physical and electrochemical processes. Methods have evolved and vary with country depending on the ore source, loca ...
in
Letpadaung, which will be jointly owned by the
(UMEHL) and the Chinese-owned Wenbao Copper Company, a subsidiary of
Norinco
China North Industries Group Corporation Limited, doing business internationally as Norinco Group (North Industries Corporation), and known within China as China Ordnance Industries Group Corporation Limited (), is a Chinese state-owned defense ...
.
References
External links
Maplandia World Gazetteer- map showing the township boundary
Townships of Sagaing Region
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