Rescuers recovered four more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 13, police said Monday. Fifteen other workers were still missing and feared dead.
Rescuers struggled Wednesday to reach 25 workers trapped underground at a US-owned mine in remote eastern Indonesia after a tunnel caved in, with four others confirmed dead.
A tunnel at a mine in the remote east of Indonesia caved in Tuesday with around 30 workers inside, the US operator and police said.
Village officials of Sta. Cruz, Zambales, set up roadblocks on Tuesday along the provincial highway after rice farmers of the town complained about the damage to the road caused by 20-ton trucks hauling ore from local mine sites to the pier for shipment.
A 24-year-old worker died allegedly due to gas poisoning while inside a gold mine tunnel in Pantukan, Compostela Valley Tuesday evening, the police said.
Local government’s power over small scale mining contracts in their areas is not absolute, the Supreme Court said.
Several people used a payloader and dump trucks to illegally extract and haul sand near the reservoirs that supply water to a subdivision in Tabun village here on Saturday and Sunday, residents said.
MABALACAT CITY—Several people used a payloader and dump trucks to illegally extract and haul sand near the reservoirs that supply water to a subdivision in Tabun village here on Saturday and Sunday, residents said. A supervisor of this city’s Task Force Quarry told the Inquirer that at least 10,000 truckloads of sand were illegally [...]
Anti-mining advocates on Tuesday identified four senatorial candidates they said they would campaign against for having interests in mining and who they feared would push the pro-mining agenda in the Senate.
The Left has finally come out: It has not been against mining, after all.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in the Ilocos has filed a complaint against a Taiwan-based mining company for illegal extraction of black sand in Caoayan, Ilocos Sur, last month.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in Northern Mindanao filed on Friday illegal mining charges, mineral theft and use of banned items, such as mercury, against a Chinese national and two Filipinos in the city prosecutor’s office here.
For years, gold producer Philex Mining Corp. had been sending Joel Son from its Padcal mine in Benguet to lead rescue missions each time calamities endangered lives in various parts of the country.
