By MINING.com Editor The mining sector in the Mekong region will remain underdeveloped and dominated by domestic players in the coming years as foreign investment flows into the sector will be minimal amidst a myriad of risks, a recently published Mining in the Mekong Region report concludes. Fitch Solutions Macro Research’s outlook for mining in the Mekong region report maintains that Myanmar will be an outperformer in the region while Thailand will underperform. The outlook forecasts large, untapped mineral deposits of the countries in the Mekong region.