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Riza T. Olchondra
THE GOVERNMENT will try to facilitate negotiations between concerned parties for a “compromise” on the open pit mining ban in South Cotabato, which is affecting the $5.2-billion Tampakan copper-gold project.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), which chairs the Minerals Development Council under the Office of the President, will meet with both […]

MANILA, Philippines - The country will try to allay the fears of its local officials and push forward mining projects, including a $5.2-billion gold-copper prospect operated by Xstrata Plc, being threatened by a provincial ban on open-pit mining, a mining official said on Tuesday.
Last month, the outgoing governor of South Cotabato signed a law […]

Othel V. Campos
The government will protect mining investments in the country, including the $5.2-billion Tampakan gold and copper project in South Cotabato, Environment Secretary Ramon Jesus Paje said Tuesday.
“It [Tampakan] is very important for us. We believe we have to protect the investment,” he told reporters in a briefing.
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THE DEPARTMENT of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has granted two exploration permits to Canadian-led mining outfit Philippine Metals, Inc. for its Suhi tenements located in Leyte province.
In a statement yesterday, Philippine Metals said the DENR granted the permit on June 23 for two Suhi tenements covering 6,290 hectares, which are on top of the […]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Crazy Horse Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: CZH) (the “Company”) a Vancouver based mineral exploration company, announces that it has entered into a property purchase agreement dated June 15, 2010 (the “Taysan Agreement”) with Taysan Copper Corporation for the acquisition of a 100% interest in the Taysan Copper-Gold Porphyry Project, in Batengas […]

K. A. Martin
THE MINES and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) and its Chinese counterpart, China Geological Survey, will start this month surveys of mineral deposits in the Visayas and Mindanao under an agreement both agencies signed in December last year.
MGB director Edwin G. Domingo said in a phone interview yesterday that the China state agency, which is […]

Surveyors from China are now in the Philippines to do the first in a series of geochemical mapping of copper and nickel deposits in the country.
“We’ve entered into an agreement with our Chinese counterpart for the conduct of a more scientific exploration. Whatever we will yield maybe used as initial data for the exploration of […]

By Riza T. Olchondra
MANILA, Philippines—The government has approved the work program for the Kingking copper-gold project in Pantukan, Compostela Valley, according to new operator Nationwide Development Corporation (NADECOR).
NADECOR, which has taken over operational duties from publicly listed Benguet Corp., said it could now move forward with the completion of the Declaration of Mining Project Feasibility […]

Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation (PSE:AT), in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, announced that it has successfully completed the third shipment of copper concentrates amounting to 5,504 wet metric tons (wmt) to its Chinese client on February 16.
The copper ore come from the mining firm’s Carmen Copper Corporation (CCC) subsidiary in Toledo […]

Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation (PSE:AT), in its disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange Monday, reported that its subsidiary Carmen Copper Corporation (CCC) has just completed its first shipment of copper concentrates from its Toledo copper mine in Cebu early this January.
A total of 5,545.834 wet metric tons (wmt) were loaded from its Sangi […]