Sleepless miner recounts seeing friends buried alive
By Nestor P. Burgos“Every time I close my eyes, I keep seeing my friends and fellow workers who died,” recounted Rodrigo (not his real name), who said that he had not slept for the past two days.
“Every time I close my eyes, I keep seeing my friends and fellow workers who died,” recounted Rodrigo (not his real name), who said that he had not slept for the past two days.
It is the second mining disaster to occur in the country in seven months, putting the local mining industry under siege, but investors do not expect a prolonged suspension of operations of Semirara Mining Corp.’s Panian open-pit coal mine in Antique, given that the disaster was “not environmental” in nature.
Former Foreign Secretary Delia Albert said she used to market the potentials of Philippine mining in her trips as presidential envoy on mining, never realizing that her “hardest job would be convincing Filipinos that mining can be good [for them].”
