By Allen V. Estabillo on April 3 2012 8:01 am
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (MindaNews/02 April) – The Philippines could fuel Southeast Asia’s emergence as a “global mining force” within the next few years with an estimated US$1 trillion worth of… »
By H. Marcos C. Mordeno on April 2 2012 7:54 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/01 April) – On Friday, 30 March, the New York-based Human Rights Watch issued a statement calling on President Benigno S. Aquino III to dismantle all paramilitary groups,… »
By Roel Catoto on April 1 2012 12:27 pm
SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/31 March) — The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) Caraga has asked Surigao del Norte Governor Sol F. Matugas to order the small scale mining group operating in and… »
By Vanessa L. Almeda on March 30 2012 9:09 am
CLAVER, Surigao del Norte (MindaNews/29 March) — Mining companies operating along Claver Bay have until next year to clean the coastlines and the “chocolate river” of Hayanggabon, the House committee… »
By Mindanews on March 23 2012 8:22 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/22 March) – Small-scale miners operating in Pantukan, Compostela Valley today said they will not give up the area to large-scale mining interests. In a statement issued at… »
By Keith Bacongco on January 11 2012 7:30 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) – Convinced that chances of survival six days after the tragedy are slim, the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) of Pantukan in Compostela… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on October 31 2011 7:53 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/30 October) – The Mines and Geosciences Bureau has given its nod to Sagittarius Mines, Inc. and a mining firm in Misamis Oriental to resume exploration activities. The… »
By Cong Corrales on October 6 2011 7:34 am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/05 October) — The simultaneous raids on three large-scale mining firms in Claver town, Surigao del Norte on Monday, should serve as a stern warning to… »
By Roel Catoto on October 6 2011 6:25 am
Using a small handheld spray, a worker from the Taganito Mining Corporation spreads water mixed with laundry soap over patches of bunker oil that spilled from one of the barges… »
By Roel Catoto on October 5 2011 5:22 am
A firefighter tries to put out the fire on a dump truck in Claver town, Surigao del Norte on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 after it was attacked by NPA rebels.… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on September 4 2011 7:33 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/03 September) — South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Pingoy Jr. has signed an agreement for a tree planting project with Sagittarius Mines, Inc., operator of the Tampakan copper-gold project… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on September 2 2011 6:51 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/1 September) – Three Catholic dioceses in Mindanao have launched a signature campaign for President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III to stop the mining venture of foreign-backed Sagittarius… »
By Walter I. Balane on September 2 2011 6:50 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/1 September) – The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Northern Mindanao 10 (DENR-10) has ordered a stop of the… »
By Keith Bacongco on April 26 2011 6:13 am
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/25 April) – For many miners, dying in a disaster like a landslide is better than dying from hunger even if dozens of their colleagues had been buried alive in different gold mining sites. Even the miners at the landslide area in Barangay Kingking here admitted that several tunnels had collapsed in the past but most of them went unreported. Two years ago, 27 miners were killed when a chunk of a mountain in Sitio Magapispis, Barangay Boringot of this town fell into three bunkhouses.
By Bong S. Sarmiento on March 29 2011 12:20 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/28 March) – One of the worst fears expressed years back by the local Catholic Church over the massive Tampakan copper-gold project of foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines, Inc –… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on February 10 2011 12:09 am
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/09 February) — The mayor of Tubay in Agusan del Norte blamed last week’s “unprecedented” floods on the overflow of the main settling pond of the San Roque Metals, Inc. (SRMI), a nickel-mining company whose operations the municipality had petitioned President Aquino to stop due to alleged “destructive and irresponsible mining practices.”
By Froilan Gallardo on February 6 2011 12:02 am
FULL OF HOPE. Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, is escorted as he walks to the venue of the press conference Saturday, February 5 in… »
By Rico Biliran on February 3 2011 5:24 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/2 Feb) – The House of Representatives will conduct an inquiry on the alleged irregularities concerning the multimillion-peso royalty payments made by a mining company to the Mamanwa… »
By Violeta M. Gloria on January 29 2011 7:53 am
BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur (MindaNews/28 January) — Indigenous communities here have asked the local government to reveal the identities of companies that have conflicting mining claims in this town. Timuay Lucenio Manda, barangay chairperson of Conacon, raised the question after municipal officials said that aside from failing to comply with legal requirements, some companies have conflicting mining claims that cover portions of the Lumads’ 30,000-hectare ancestral domain.
By Violeta M. Gloria on January 22 2011 12:09 am
DIPOLOG CITY (MindaNews/21 Jan) – Reciting The Holy Rosary while holding aloft placards, around 1,000 protesters led by the Catholic church gathered at the Dipolog Cathedral Wednesday morning and marched… »
By Carolyn O. Arguillas on January 9 2011 7:34 am
SAN AGUSTIN, Surigao del Sur (MindaNews/08 January) – NDF-Mindanao spokesperson discusses the NPA strength, the Aquino administration, mining and revolutionary taxation in this last part of the series.
By Walter I. Balane on January 4 2011 7:32 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 January) – Malaybalay Bishop Jose Araneta Cabantan centered his homily on mining and rising criminality in Bukidnon, in a mass held on New Year’s Eve at the… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on December 17 2010 8:24 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/16 December) – The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is seeking more dialogues with officials of South Cotabato province over the controversial ban on… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on December 11 2010 12:03 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 Dec) – Anti-mining activists opposing a proposed giant mining project in South Cotabato ended their 150-kilometer four-day march cum caravan upon arriving in Digos City in… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 9 2010 7:12 am
MALAYBALAY CITY(MindaNews/08 December) — Former Bukidnon congressman Nerius O. Acosta said he prefers to review all small- and large-scale mining contracts in the country once he gets appointed as environment… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on December 9 2010 7:11 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/08 December) —The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in Southwestern Mindanao has denied the application of 15 mining companies for failure to comply with the requirements, a top… »
By Bong S. Sarmiento on December 8 2010 7:43 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/07 December)—Some 50 militant and environment activists started before noon Tuesday the four-day march protest against foreign-backed Sagittarius Mines Inc, owner of the massive Tampakan copper-gold project. The… »
By Germelina Lacorte on December 7 2010 6:47 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 December) –The widow of a slain anti-mining activist said that if the government could not go after her husband’s killers, she would consider stopping the Tampakan gold-copper… »
By Walter I. Balane on December 4 2010 12:01 am
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/3 Dec) – The diggings flatten its mountains but the provincial government of Bukidnon earns only 10 percent or P100 per metric ton of chromite ore extracted within… »
By Mindanews on November 4 2010 7:42 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/3 Nov) — The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of South Cotabato will be conducting a preliminary hearing to listen to opposing views on the province’s controversial environment code that bans… »
By Mindanews on October 21 2010 9:34 am
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/20 October) – Seven groups, including local business chambers, have organized into the Southern Mindanao Coalition for Sustainable Development (SMC4SD), which aims to promote the trade and investment… »
By Keith Bacongco on August 18 2010 12:01 am
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 August) – Mindanao’s total trade performance in the first quarter of this year amounted to $1.09 billion or an increase of 41.26 percent compared to $769 million… »
By Allen V. Estabillo on August 6 2010 12:05 am
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/5 Aug) – Police and environment personnel seized more than 60 tons of illegally extracted copper ore in separate operations in Tampakan town and Koronadal City in… »
