International Recognition. In 2019, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted the Resolution 2019/23 titled Combating transnational organized crime and its links to illicit trafficking in precious metals and illegal mining, including by enhancing the security of supply chains of precious metals on the recommendation of the Commission on Crime …
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The Philippine government's pivot toward allowing more mining will undermine indigenous peoples' rights and increase the marginalization of some of the country's most effective guardians of ...
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GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines – Illegal mining activities in South Cotabato have resurged despite recent efforts to crack down on them, with illegal mine operators becoming better equipped and ...
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some of the mining companies are based in the UK and increasingly money raised in the City of London is being used to fund disastrous projects. World Bank support for an expansion of destructive mining in the Philippines is also a matter of great concern and given the substantial provision of funding to the World Bank by UK taxpayers, a matter
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The DENR reported that it issued 4,526 mining permits and contracts and contributed P407.6 million to Covid-19 response in 2021. It also closed 144 illegal …
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In 2018, the first report of the interagency Fact-Finding Committee on Illegal Mining titled "Philippine Mining Unearthed" identified quarrying of magnetite black ore or black sand as the "most ...
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AMID the pandemic, the government stopped 144 illegal mining operations in 2021, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) reported. DENR Secretary Roy A. Cimatu credited the ...
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Mining activities in the southern Palawan municipality threaten the livelihood of communities dependent on agriculture, fisheries and forests, and affect the access of residents to clean water ...
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A planned $5.9 billion copper and gold mine in the southern Philippines has faced opposition since reserves were first confirmed in the 1990s, with more than two dozen people killed since then in ...
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CLAVER, Philippines — The Philippine mining town of Claver is busy with bakeries, fruit stands, pool halls and karaoke bars. In the mountains nearby, bulldozers cling to treeless slopes ...
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Compressor mining is considered illegal under Philippine law, but the law is largely ignored. Miners work underwater, breathing through a slender tube attached to a compressor on the surface – hence the name. Fishermen breathed through tubes such as these for generations, but even in relatively shallow waters, the practice is extremely …
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The government of the Philippines is counting on the role mining can play as a source of economic development, but it must be acknowledged that mining is also an activity presenting a plethora of environmental, social and economic problems. As Pring et al. (1999, 45) acknowledged, "Few, if any, forms of economic development present the …
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MANILA, Philippines — Authorities arrested last May 13 a total of 18 suspects — five of them Chinese — and seized several pieces of heavy equipment in a raid on illegal mining operations on ...
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By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff) For more than a century, the Kankanaey and Ibaloy Peoples of Itogon, Benguet province in the Cordillera region of Northern Luzon in the Philippines have been waging a struggle against the injustices of large-scale corporate mining. As they continue to fight to reclaim their land, lifeways, …
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Amnesty's report puts the statistics into perspective, and lifts the smoke screen on what's systematically wrong in the mining industry in the Philippines," said Amnesty International Philippines Section Director, Butch Olano. The Philippines is one of the world's largest producers of nickel ore, and the world's leading supplier to China.
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Gina Lopez, a former media mogul and environmental activist, was appointed as the Philippines' environment chief in 2016. She faced powerful mining barons and was ousted after banning open-pit mines …
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The creation of a well-trained, mining-focused task force serves to enforce the ban on illegal mining, and protect license-holders whose mining areas are subject to these intrusions. 4) Monitor ...
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He said Cagayan de Oro Mayor Rolando Uy met the officials from the three barangays in December 2022 to warn them to put a stop to the illegal mining activities along the Iponan River.
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In 2018, the first report of the interagency Fact-Finding Committee on Illegal Mining titled "Philippine Mining Unearthed" identified quarrying of magnetite black ore or black sand as the "most common form of illegal mining operations." Apprehension data showed that black sand mining often took the guise of dredging or sand extraction.
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How can the Philippines improve its mining sector's accountability and sustainability? Learn from experts and activists in this insightful article.
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Pro-mining groups are hoping the lifting of the ban will advance the controversial Tampakan project, touted as the largest undeveloped copper-gold site in Southeast Asia and among the largest in the world, although a provincial ban is still preventing the project that would displace at least 4,000 Indigenous Blaan tribespeople …
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A protected area and an Indigenous Community Conserved Area on Mount Apo, a popular ecotourism site, is affected by small-scale gold mining without permission. The Manobo tribe, who claim the land as their ancestral domain, rejects mining and …
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The ICCs' petition, according to the Supreme Court statement, rightfully questioned multiple issues, including the illegally extended Mineral Production Sharing Agreement covering 2,835 hectares of land that is overlapping a protected area not open to mining operations, illegal mining operations and the illegal cutting of trees.
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Mining operations in the Philippines reportedly have direct negative effects on the health and welfare of communities. Concerns have been raised over lack of free, …
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Respect the people's will! Stop illegal operations in Didipio mines! Environmental and human rights groups in the Philippines support the resistance led by the Didipio Earth Savers Movement (DESAMA) and Didipio-Watch against destructive and irresponsible mining in Nueva Vizcaya.
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A court has upheld a ban on open-pit mining in the Philippine province of South Cotabato, home to the largest known untapped deposits of copper and gold in Southeast Asia.
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President Rodrigo Duterte's recent decision to overturn a nationwide moratorium on new mining projects, which had been in place since 2012, was lauded by mining and business entities (1) and …
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The Department of Energy and Natural Resources (DENR) has completed a review of 26 Philippines mining companies that found 13 were of an unacceptable standard and would have to be closed or suspended. Begun in February 2017 and written by the country's Mining Industry Coordinating Council, the report ranks the performance …
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IUCN NL partner organisation Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) works with its partners and members in various locations in the Philippines, where Indigenous peoples and local communities are faced with large-scale mining operations that threaten their lives and livelihood. The organisation has been documenting and reporting issues …
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ing mines in the Philippines and, although illegal mining extends the actual number significantly beyond this, the Philippine mining sector is startlingly small. In 2011 the gross production value for metallic min-erals was PhP122.58 billion ($3 billion),
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