Tag: #MGB
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Metallic minerals output slightly up in 2020
The country’s metallic mineral production slightly increased by value last year as prices remained higher than their pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, data from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) showed.
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Quarry and crushing plants in Rizal cleared to operate
Mining operations within the Marikina River Basin should not be blamed for the massive flooding that engulfed some parts of Marikina and Rizal province during the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses, the deadliest and most destructive typhoon to hit the country in 2020.
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Miners allowed to realign funds for COVID-19 vaccines
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has allowed mining companies to re-align their social development funds the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Chamber welcomes move to regulate small-scale mining
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.
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SMI secures NCIP green light for Tampakan mine
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.
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DOF to ‘untangle’ mining assets legal issues
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.
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MGB’s Central Visayas regional director retires
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 nourishment project.