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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 […]

COTABATO CITY, Philippines—Two Muslim women are among the 15 students from conflict-affected areas of Mindanao getting financial support from the USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program.
Once they pass the licensure examination, the two, Musarapa Insiang and Haiza Pigkaulan, will be among the first Mindanao Muslim women mining engineers in the Philippines. Both women […]

KORONADAL CITY, Philippines—South Cotabato Governor Arthur Pinggoy on Friday said he has to enforce the ban on open pit mining in the province because he believed it was not illegal.
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 Feb) - Coal mining firm Sultan Energy Philippines Corp. has started the test production phase of the Daguma coal field in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, a senior company official said on Thursday.
“We’re still working on to get the endorsement of the barangay unit for us to extract 68,000 tons of coal […]

TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato (MindaNews / December 7) – Estimate of copper and gold deposits here could actually be much higher than earlier reported, the new owner of the Tampakan exploration project said.
The Xstrata Copper posted a recent report on the Internet that said that new resource estimates for copper and gold deposits in the project […]

TAMPAKAN, South Cotabato (for MindaNews/ 20 October) – Anxiety and concerns are nearing boiling point in this placid town of Tampakan in South Cotabato. Above its rustic plains and beyond its surrounding lush mountains, a gathering storm and an expectant wait are brewing.
In a couple of years, the languid lifestyle of the town folks in […]