Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippine government is still determined to award the country’s best mining companies. A Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) memorandum showed that the agency, tasked to regulate and develop the country’s mining sector, has already started the nomination...
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...
A week since Typhoon Ulysses hit the country, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has allowed miners to re-align their funds for their respective Social Development and Management Programs (SDMP) to bankroll their typhoon relief efforts. “In the interest of public service and for humanitarian...
Regulated use of explosives in small-scale mining areas may be allowed in the amended version of the Republic Act (RA) 7076 or the People's Small-Scale Mining Act, a top official at Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said. This alarmed an environmental group, which said the MGB does not even have...
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has rejected the request of the Australian-Canadian miner Oceana Gold Philippines, Inc. (OGPI) to transport the remaining ore from its suspended mine site in Barangay Didipio in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya. In his letter to OGPI General Manager David Way, MGB...
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 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....
