Ban Thalat Choeng Thale (GPS: 7.99695, 98.30944) is a Chinese settlement in central Phuket. A village was established here in the late 19th century, populated mostly by ethnic Chinese miners working on the tin mines near the coast of Bangtao Beach.
By the early 1980's, tin mining was a distant memory, yet the landscape is one of desolation pockmarked by remnants of the former mines. In 1983 the Thai Wah Company embarked on a massive project to rehabilitate the coastal stretch. That was how the Laguna Phuket resort project come into being.
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