Adela (not her real name) waited an hour and a half on a sofa along a hotel corridor while assistants of a foreign jewelry buyer went out to withdraw cash to purchase items from another seller who came before her.
The lack of electricity after Typhoon “Pablo” brought down power lines in her community last December proved a blessing in disguise for 16-year-old Judy Ann Romano.
The governor of Surigao del Norte expressed alarm over reports of large-scale smuggling of gold out of the province, saying authorities should investigate and put a stop to the illegal extraction and shipment of the highly prized metal.
A new trend has hit the streets of Paris: ripping gold chains from their owners’ necks.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in southern Mindanao will oversee the pullout of all gold processing plants in Mt. Diwata in Monkayo, Compostela Valley, following the rise in levels of mercury and other toxic substances in Naboc River, a key source of water for farming in the province.
Gold and copper producer Philex Mining Corp. on Thursday scrambled to contain another leak at its waste facility in Itogon, Benguet.
Despite the skyrocketing price of gold and the scarcity of donors, the awarding of real gold medals to honor students in the impoverished village of Diwalwal here will continue this year, village officials said.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources remains fully behind the $5.9-billion Tampakan copper-gold mine project, the largest foreign investment in the country, even as it admitted that an appeal to reverse its decision rejecting the company’s environmental permit is dim.
There was a village in Ibaloi lore called “Tonglo” where the trading of gold was said to be brisk and thriving. An account by Michael Armand Canilao in his book, “Of Gold, Spanish Conquistadors and Ibaloi Generational Memory” (Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines-Baguio, 2011), has it that a Spanish punitive expedition in 1759 razed this village, killing hundreds of Ibaloi who fought the invaders.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in Eastern Visayas is investigating the reported illegal gold mining activities in Southern Leyte and in Eastern Samar.
The demolition of a community of fortune seekers on a gold-rush site here proceeded peacefully, sending dozens of people packing and leaving a danger zone where they had been willing to risk life and limb in the hope of striking gold.
Environment Secretary Ramon Paje has asked the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (Paoctf) to run after gold smugglers, saying they were sabotaging the economy.
Environment Secretary Ramon Paje has asked the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force to go after gold smugglers, saying they were sabotaging the economy.
