Shandong Zhaojin Group Co., Ltd. is located in China’s gold capital—Zhaoyuan City of Shandong Province that is well-known around the world for being rich in gold. It is a large-scale comprehensive group corporation specialized in gold mining, non-gold mining, trading & deep processing of gold, high-tech industry and real estate five industries. Established in 1974 and reformed into a limited liability company in 2002, with total assets of 18.3 billion RMB and 15,000 workers and staff.
The gold industry of our company has formed a complete production system with a line of gold exploration, mining & processing, cyanide metallurgy, refining, processing of gold & silver products and supporting sales with gold resources and reserves of over 400 tons in total presently. On December 8, 2006, Zhaojin Mining Industry Co., Ltd. owned by the Group had successfully come into the main-board market in Hong Kong with a total collection of over 2.5 billion Hong Kong currencies of capital in total. In 2011, the Group achieved the32.84% and 24.69% in respect of the growth rate of sales revenue and profit respectively, and safety production and put an end to environmental protection accident.
The group company has been included into “China Top 500 Enterprises” for eight consecutive years, ranked 294 at present; into “China Top 500 Manufacturing Enterprises”, ranked 162; into “China Top 200 Enterprises in Economic Benefits”, ranked 192; and for eight consecutive years into “China 500 Most Valuable Brands”, and the value of “Zhaojin Brand” has reached 9.658 billion RMB, ranked 118;”Zhaojin” Trademark recognized as “Famous Trademark of China”. Our group has been listed in “Key Enterprise Group of Shandong Province”, “520 Key Enterprises of the State”, “First Member Unit of Integrated Businesses of Shanghai Gold Exchange and First Qualified Refining Enterprise that Can Provide Standard Gold Ingots “ in succession. The company also won the honorary titles such as “Provincial Civilized Unit”, “Advanced Grassroots Party Organizations of Shandong Province”, “Top 10 Mining Enterprises of the State”, “National May Day Labor Award”, “National Star Enterprises in Gold Industry”, “National Advanced Units for Enterprises Culture Construction”, “National Outstanding Unit for Enterprise Culture in 30 Year’s Reform and Opening up”, “China Gold Advanced Unit of Ideological and Political Work”, “Most Influential Enterprise in China”, “Advanced Unit in National Gold Industry”, “National Excellent Trustworthy Enterprise” and “Outstanding Contribution Award of China's Enterprise Management in 2010”.
Minelab, the global leader in gold detection technology and hand-held metal detector devices has announced the establishment of a Gold Mining division to support artisanal small scale gold miners and prospectors around the world.
The recent discovery of a 5.5kg gold nugget in Ballarat, Australia at 60cms depth by a prospector using a Minelab GPX 5000 hand-held gold detector illustrates the benefit of Minelab’s cutting edge technology in the pursuit of gold.
The Ballarat nugget was valued in excess of $300,000.
Prospectors across Asia have also tasted success with the GPX 5000 gold detector. Recently a prospector in Mongolia discovered 50g of gold in the Gobi Altai province using Minelab's gold detecting technology. Successful finds have also been reported in Pakistan, Indonesia and China and there is potential for successful gold prospecting using Minelab metal detectors throughout most of the region.
Minelab launched its first hand-held gold detector in Australia in 1985 and over the past 28 years has been at the forefront of metal detector design and innovation. Minelab's new Gold Mining division will provide dedicated support to the worldwide small scale gold mining market and its communities.
Beware of counterfeit products! There are many suppliers stealing the Minelab and GPX-5000 trademark and offering inferior products to customers. Please visit www.minelab.com to find a list of authorized Dealers.