MANILA—The inter-agency Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) on Thursday approved a resolution that calls for the creation of group that will review mining contracts and other...
MANILA –The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) on Wednesday thanked President Rodrigo Duterte and the Cabinet for deciding to observe due process with regards...
MANILA –The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) on Tuesday cited it’s right-to-know under the freedom of information (FOI) to compel the Department of Environment...
MANILA –Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said it is the municipalities, not the national government, that would be greatly affected by loss of tax revenues from...
MANILA –The head of the country’s national geological institution is calling on Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez to make public the basis for her...
MANILA, Philippines—Philippine officials on Tuesday recommended the suspension of 20 more mines, mostly nickel producers, for environmental violations, threatening to tighten supply from the world’s top...
MANILA – Local business groups and joint foreign chambers expressed their opposition to the proposed reforms to on the Philippine Mining Act adding that it will...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines – In what they described as “punitive actions” against mining operations in Mindanao, New People’s Army (NPA) communist rebels raided the field...
SOMA, Turkey – Rescuers struggled to reach more than 200 miners trapped underground early Wednesday after an explosion and a fire at a coal mine...