MANILA, Philippines — The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) welcomed the government’s lifting of the ban on open pit mining, saying it will allow the industry to contribute more to the ...

A couple of weeks ago, the Philippines lifted a four-year ban on open-pit mining. In doing so, it also re-opened the debate on the mining method’s perceived environmental impact and its promising ...

Environment Secretary Regina Paz L. Lopez announced on Thursday a new policy banning the open-pit mining method for gold, copper, silver and complex ores, taking advantage of the “limited time” she ...

Administrative Order No. 2017-10 prohibiting the open-pit method of mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores in the country remains effective at the turn of the year. This is largely due to ...

THE environmental impact of open-pit mining should not pose an obstacle to the practice, which increases the efficiency of mining operations and potentially generates more funding for development, the ...

Months after the signing of Executive Order (EO) 130, which lifts the moratorium on the processing of new mining projects, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is now poised to ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said Wednesday that it has put in place policies that would help ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has lifted the four-year-old ban on open-pit mining, a ...

The government may consider lifting the ban on open-pit mining as a review to be conducted by the interagency Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) will determine if the global practice can also ...

THE Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said the draft implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Executive Order (EO) No. 130 includes a repealing clause that would lift the open-pit mining ban ...

The Joint Foreign Chambers (JFC) of the Philippines and the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) have welcomed the Duterte administration’s recent move to lift the ban on open-pit mining, saying it ...

'Sir, open-pit mining will really disadvantage the Filipino, our farmers and fishermen, forever, for life,' says the former environment secretary MANILA, Philippines – Former environment secretary ...