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The Malaysian Chamber of Mines is the only Chamber in this country established by an Act of Parliament. On 10 December 1914, the Chamber was formally incorporated under the Federated Malay States Chamber of Mines Incorporation Enactment No. 25 of 1914.

On 8 September 1988, the States of Malaya Chamber of Mines Incorporation (Amendment) Act was gazetted to give effect to a change of name from the previous States of Malaya Chamber of Mines to the present Malaysian Chamber of Mines.

On the same day, the then Minister of Primary Industries, in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 15 of the Act, gazetted several amendments to the Chamber’s By-Laws. These were to streamline the management and administration of the Chamber’s affairs in order to keep-up with the prevailing changed circumstances in the mining industry. These amendments were gazetted in the Federal Government Gazette on 6 April 1989 vide Act 367.

It is the oldest Chamber of its kind in the country.

The Chamber’s Objectives as laid down in its Incorporation Act are:

  • To protect, promote and advance the general interest of the minerals resource community in Malaysia
  • To consider all questions connected with the minerals industry and promote public discussion thereon
  • To collect, classify and diffuse minerals resource information
  • To communicate and exchange information on minerals resource industry matters to and with other minerals industry associations in Malaysia and elsewhere
  • To promote and facilitate the minerals resource industry contribution to sustainable development within the national and global sustainable development strategies
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The Chamber’s membership is made up of major mining companies, mining consultants, engineers, individuals and other mining associations. As at April 2022 it has a membership of 144, comprising the following categories of membership:

  1. Ordinary members
    • 1.1 Annual members
      • 1.1.1 Individual ordinary members
      • 1.1.2 Other Chambers of Mines or similar associations
      • 1.1.3 Corporations or companies connected with the mining industry
    • 1.2 Life members;
  2. Visiting members
  3. Honorary members