The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP), the organization of some of the country's largest mining companies, will tap independent verifiers to review members’ compliance in meeting society’s growing expectations on the mining industry’s social, economic, and environmental performance,...
The Philippines mining sector has suffered a decline in output and value from January to September of this year, a negative development that the government attributes to the COVID-19 pandemic. In its latest data, Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said the country’s metallic mineral production...
With higher exports and few layoffs, the country's mining sector has remained largely unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic, a mining official said. In a webinar hosted by Arangkada Philippines, Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) Chairman Gerard Brimo said on Wednesday that the mining sector...
Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP), which is composed of some of the country’s biggest mining companies, welcomed the proposal of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) to further regulate small-scale mining (SSM) activities in the Philippines. But, the group warned that allowing...
The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP), the group of some of the largest mining companies in the Philippines, is now ready to implement the localized version of Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM), an international mining sustainability standard adopted by miners in Canada and other countries....