Mining loses one of its biggest heroes
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.
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.
Philex Mining Corp. is again being held to account, this time by government foresters, over a road that it allegedly built through a Benguet watershed without first securing the proper clearances, like an environmental compliance certificate (ECC).
Philex Mining Corp. is again being held to account, this time by government foresters, over a road that it allegedly built through a Benguet watershed without first securing the proper clearances, like an environmental compliance certificate (ECC).
The country’s largest gold producer, Philex Mining Corp., allegedly destroyed a portion of a protected forest in Itogon, Benguet, to build a road to its new mine waste facility.
The lawyer of business tycoon Roberto Ongpin on Saturday said the Court of Appeals’ order freezing Ongpin’s bank accounts is “totally without basis and completely unjustified.”
Philex Mining Corp. voluntarily shut down its Padcal operations on Aug. 1, when an accidental discharge of water and sediment was discovered at its tailing pond in Itogon, Benguet province, amid heavy rains from Typhoon “Gener” (international name: Saola).
President Benigno Aquino III’s marching orders to Environment Secretary Ramon Paje brooked no argument: Do not compromise on the environment.
Mutant tilapias were reportedly found in the rivers of a mining village in Tuba, Benguet province after one of Philex Mining Corp.’s tailings pond leaked last August, a result of a fact-finding mission joined by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said.
Gold and copper producer Philex Mining Corp. has been paying royalties to a Kalanguya community near its Padcal mine in Benguet province since 2008, the first such arrangement between a mining company and indigenous peoples (IPs) since the government passed the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997.
Gold and copper producer Philex Mining Corp. on Thursday scrambled to contain another leak at its waste facility in Itogon, Benguet.
The tailings dam of gold producer Philex Mining Corp. in Itogon, Benguet, leaked silt and water on Thursday, confirming an alert sent by a Benguet resident through a text message, officials of the firm and the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said.
Antimining activists or disgruntled employees could be the brains behind the grenade attack that rocked the main office of Philex Mining Corp. in Pasig City in the wee hours of Friday, the police said.
Businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan has revealed discussions with one of China’s biggest oil firms for the possibility of a partnership with Beijing to tap what the likely vast oil reserves at the disputed Recto Bank.
