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MANILA, Philippines - Canadian mining firm MBMI Resources, Inc., which operates the Rio Tuba nickel project in Palawan in partnership with Olympic Mines and Development Corp., will legally fight the recent decision of the Philippines to cancel MBMI’s Financial and Technical Assistance Agreements (FTAAs) in Palawan.
In its website, MBMI announced that last April 19, 2011, […]

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Philippines—Residents of a coastal community in the southern Palawan town of Bataraza reported on Saturday a fish kill around the bay where a large nickel mining operation is located.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Jul 07, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Clenergen Corporation /quotes/comstock/11k!crge.e (CRGE 0.61, -0.01, -1.61%) today announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with Rio Tuba Nickel Mining Corporation to design and install up to 34MW/h of biomass power plants at certain of Rio Tuba’s mining […]

Neil Jerome C. Morales, BusinessWorld
MANILA, Philippines - Listed Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp. is looking at reopening its nickel mine in Southern Luzon this year to take advantage of the recovery in nickel prices, company executives said.
The miner is also studying the feasibility of putting up a processing plant to add value to the […]

THE CHAMBER of Mines of the Philippines has denounced the 25-year moratorium on mining in Palawan, stressing that the sweeping policy was not the solution to the province’s environmental concern.
In a statement released Friday, the chamber said the diverse resources of Palawan could instead be harnessed for the benefit of its residents without endangering the […]

From: Philippine Daily Inquirer
By Conrado Banal III
Platinum Group Metals Corp. can actually source enough nickel ore from its own mines — at least for now — to feed its ferronickel smelting plant in Mindanao.
Okay, that was part of the rejoinder of Platinum Metals chairman Ramon Atayde to our report last week, in which we talked […]