Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI) has secured the green light from the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to extract minerals in ancestral domain areas covered by the Tampakan gold and copper mine project. During an Indigenous Peoples’ (IP) summit, Bae Dalena Samling, chieftain of the...
The Department of Finance (DOF) is pursuing steps to untangle the legal issues tying down idle mining assets held by the government in an effort to speed up their privatization and revive their operations. ...
The Department of Finance (DOF) wants to revive the mining industry to create jobs in rural as well as generate revenues for the government’s efforts in rebuilding the economy hit by the pandemic. At the virtual Philippine Business Conference and Expo, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III...
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) announced the retirement of its Regional Director in Central Visayas, Loreto Alburo, the same official who issued an ore transport permit back in August for the shipment of dolomite rocks from Alcoy town in southern Cebu for the government’s Manila Bay beach...