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MANILA, Philippines — The farming town of Tampakan, South Cotabato is pinning its hopes on the operation of the copper-gold project of Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI) to boost its revenues, reduce the high unemployment rate and arrest the high dropout rate in its schools.
Mayor Leonardo Escobillo, an engineer, said that with farming as its main […]

MANILA, Philippines - Sagittarius Mines, Inc.’s (SMI) Interactive Mining Information Center (iMIC) on the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project has won the Bronze Award for Best Public Relations Initiated Campaign in the UA&P Tambuli Awards for 2011.
The iMIC is a multimedia display that aims to inform visitors on the use of minerals in daily life, the mine […]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/12 April)—Buoyed by national government support, Sagittarius Mines, Inc., operator of the massive Tampakan copper-gold project, appeared keen on pushing ahead despite the open-pit ban imposed by the provincial government of South Cotabato.
Constancio Paye, Jr., regional director of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, said the mining company is preparing to submit the […]

MANILA, Philippines – Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI) unveils today an interactive mining information center (iMIC), featuring the first real hologram show in the country, at the Science & Discovery Center, Mall of Asia, Pasay City today. It opens free to the public.

The center, a joint project by the Philippine Mine Safety and Environment Association […]

Jerry Adlaw / Correspondent
DESPITE strong opposition from the Church and some environmental groups, Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI) has started the process of acquiring an environmental compliance certificate (ECC) for its copper and gold-mine project in Tampakan, South Cotabato.
“We already embarked on the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment [Esia] of the Tampakan project. There’s a range […]

MindaNews
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/23 Sep) – The Sagittarius Mines, Inc. has started the process of getting an environmental compliance certificate (ECC) for its copper and gold project.
“We already embarked on the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Tampakan project. There’s a range of specialist studies being conducted by international and local experts who […]

Manuel T. Cayon / Reporter
DAVAO CITY—The Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI) has set its eyes on 2016 as the likely year it will start mining its gold-and-copper concession that traverses the south-central Mindanao triboundary in what could yet be the country’s biggest operation of a confirmed world-class deposit.
SMI’s corporate-community sustainability manager Elvie Grace Ganchero told the […]

From: www.mindanews.com
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/23 August) — The bid war to wrest control over the 34.5 per cent stake of Australian-based Indophil Resources NL at Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI) took a new twist last week as a new consortium upped its bid statement to outmaneuver Anglo-Swiss owned Xstrata Copper. XStrata Plc, which owns Australia-based Xstrata […]

From: afp.google.com
TAGUM, Philippines (AFP) — Communist guerrillas Sunday shot and wounded two Philippine soldiers after an attack that saw drilling equipment owned by the Swiss-based mining giant Xstrata set on fire.
The New People’s Army (NPA) struck before dawn near the town of Kiblawan on Mindanao island, where Xstrata subsidiary Sagittarius Mining Inc. is developing a […]

From: www.gmanews.tv
MANILA, Philippines - Citing the project’s threat to the environment, the Catholic Church in South Cotabato has increased pressure on the provincial government to block a large-scale mining in Tampakan town.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said Friday that the diocese of Marbel issued a pastoral statement questioning such mining projects.

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