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(Media-Newswire.com) - Trade Queensland will lead a trade mission to the Philippines in November to support the State’s mining-related businesses as they identify and investigate first-hand the opportunities in this growing market for mining equipment, technology and services.
Minister for Trade John Mickel said that the trade mission would coincide with Mining Philippines 2008 ( also […]

By Manolo Serapio
Reuters
MANILA, Philippines — China Metallurgical Construction Group Corp. (MCC) is considering investing at least $1.5 billion in an integrated steel plant in the southern Philippines, and is also looking at potential mining sites, a government official said Wednesday.
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Lito Atienza said he met officials of MCC, a state-backed Chinese […]

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MANILA, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The Philippines has pushed back its target of attracting $10 billion in investments into the mining sector by a year to 2012, with some companies struggling to raise funds, a senior official said on Monday.
Horacio Ramos, director of the mines and geosciences bureau, said the government is also unsure whether […]

BAGUIO CITY, Philippines (UCAN) — Jason Himmayod, who was trapped eight days in a mine, felt weak after doctors pulled from his side the tube that was draining water from his lungs.
Navy divers and fellow miners had rescued him and nine other small-scale miners from a shaft of an abandoned minefield belonging to the private […]

FLORO TAGUINOD, GMANews.TV
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Philippines – If concerned government agencies do not act at once, ludong, one of the country’s most expensive fishes found in seas off Cagayan province may soon go extinct.
Natives of Lal-lo and Camalaniugan towns issued this warning as they noted that illegal quarrying activities along the Cagayan River persist despite the […]

Singapore 07 October 2008 05:44
Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp expects to commission the second phase of its 60,000 tpy Toledo copper project in Cebu, Philippines, in 2009, it said on Monday. The second 30,000 tpy phase of the rehabilitation…
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“BUSINESS MIRROR” Newspaper - Monday, October 06, 2008
By Manuel T. Cayon Reporter
DAVAO CITY—The Mindanao Business Council (MinBC) and the other parties promoting mining in Mindanao will soon form the Mindanao Working Group (MWG), a special multisectoral body, to enforce the locally agreed policy on “use it or lose it” on […]

MANILA, Oct 03, 2008 (Reuters via COMTEX) — PLXCF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Philex Mining Corp, the Philippines’ biggest mining firm, said on Friday it had signed a deal to sell a 20.16 percent stake in the company to Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co Ltd for 6.165 billion pesos ($131 […]

Leading Philippines mining company, Philex, is to buy Anglo American’s 50 percent stake in the government prioritised Boyongan gold/copper project which will leave it with 100 percent control.
Philex Mining Corp , the Philippines’ most valuable listed mining company, said on Thursday it was buying out partner Anglo American Plc in a gold and […]