FNI eyes 51% growth in nickel exports
Global Ferronickel Holdings Inc. said Thursday it plans to export 6.5 million wet metric tons of nickel this year from ...
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Camarines Norte provincial board to boost mining activities
The provincial board of Camarines Norte recently passed a resolution expressing thanks and appreciation to the Department of Environment and ...
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Anti-mining protest
Members of Kailakasan People’s network stage a demonstration-protest in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) main ...
Read morePH rejoins global initiative to pursue transparency in mining
The Marcos administration demonstrated its commitment to pursue transparency in natural resource governance by rejoining the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative ...
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Study finds surge in illegal gold mining in Brazil
The sharp rise in gold prices has driven a surge of illegal mining in Brazil, much of it in the ...
Read moreMining giant BHP records decade-high profit, buoyed by coal
Australian mining firm BHP revealed Tuesday that its profits jumped nearly 40 percent in the past year despite falling iron ...
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Sinkhole larger than tennis court has Chile perplexed
Experts in Chile on Tuesday were investigating the appearance of an enormous sinkhole, bigger than a tennis court, that has ...
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The centuries-old mines stirring Japan-South Korea tensions
By Sara Hussein Under a split-top mountain on the Japanese island of Sado lies a network of centuries-old mines that ...
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Johannesburg transport project digs into wounds of the past
By Griffin Shea Off Johannesburg's main highway, surrounded by skyscrapers, heavy machinery has unearthed one of the city's original wounds ...
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Philex eyes P2.65B from stock rights offering
Gold and copper producer Philex Mining Corp. is raising P2.65 billion from a planned stock rights offering. Philex, according to ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.