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The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) denounced Saturday the ongoing mining operations in Mindanao, citing it does not bring any good to the people.
“Yes, we oppose activities of mining firms in Mindanao as it remains one of the reason why we are helping break the impasse in the ancestral domain issue in the GRP-MILF talks,” […]

A Mining company in Nueva Vizcaya expects an amicable settlement of its land claims as residents are amenable to a land use compensation scheme.
Seven of the 12 families, who occupy public forest areas in Brgy.Didipio , Nueva Vizcaya, have allowed Australasian Philippines Mining Inc. to use their land, saying the program was a “once-in-a-lifetime” chance […]

A Nueva Vizcaya mining project anticipates an amicable sttlement of its land claims as residents had turned in to government to accept a generous land use compensation scheme.
Deeming the program to be a “once-in-a-life-time” chance to improve their livelihood, seven of the 12 remaining families in Barangay Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya who occupy land in public […]

LAFAYETTE Mining says the repair of its typhoon-damaged polymetallic mine in the Philippines is on track, but the troubled operation is facing more headaches, this time from insurers.
The company said the base metals plant and ancillary structure required for the restart of production of copper and zinc concentrates were expected to be available early next […]

CALGARY, ALBERTA –(CCNMatthews - Jan. 16, 2007) - TVI Pacific Inc. (TSX:TVI) (”TVI” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Robert C. Armstrong, Ph.D., has been appointed as the Lead Director of the Company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Armstrong joined the Board on June 23, 1998 and has served as an independent director on […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Lafayette Mining Ltd. said on Tuesday it was confident of a rapid resumption of copper and zinc concentrate shipments once repairs are completed at its mine in the Philippines, damaged by a typhoon late last year.
In the meantime, existing inventories of concentrate — ground ore — were being shipped on spot terms […]

MANILA: Australia’s Lafayette Mining Ltd plans to ship a total of 2,670 tonnes of copper and zinc concentrate to China this week and next from its Rapu-Rapu project in the Philippines, an industry source said on Saturday.
The source said the total included an initial 870 tonnes of copper concentrate, its first output of the metal […]

TVI Pacific Inc. (TSX:TVI) (”TVI” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that its Philippine affiliate, TVI Resource Development (Phils.) Inc. (”TVIRD”), has completed additional exploration drilling on the Balabag Property located in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. Information concerning prior results of the drilling program at Balabag was included in the Company’s October 10, 2006 […]

Carmen Copper Corp., a newly formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp., is investing P12.475 billion to re-open and rehabilitate the Toledo mines in Cebu.
The project was one of the big-ticket projects approved by the Board of Investments for incentives last year.

Oceanagold Announces Dry Commissioning Of Its Reefton Gold Project
OceanaGold today announced that dry-commissioning of the Globe Progress process plant at the Reefton Gold Project on the South Island of New Zealand started during the last week of December 2006. Dry-commissioning of the 1 million tonne per annum (Mtpa) process plant commenced with the mills and […]