The Department of Environment and Natural Resources on Tuesday issued a conditional environmental compliance certificate to the $5.9 billion Tampakan copper-gold project of Sagittarius Mining Inc. (SMI) in Southern Mindanao.
One commonly heard criticism of the local mining industry is that it rarely benefits the indigenous people—known by the shorthand: IPs—where the mining firms operate.
Coffee consumption in the country has grown almost as fast as coffee production has fallen in recent years.
The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has allowed a South African mine venture to proceed with drilling operations on ancestral lands, after dismissing a January 27 petition for a writ of preliminary injunction filed by residents of Mankayan, Benguet.
Robert Bongsiw of Barangay (village) Ambuklao here has a job as fisherman that his Ibaloi elders would never have tried in upland Benguet.
Jake Mining Co. is set to start negotiations with the four unified groups controlling Tribal Mining Areas (Trimas) in the Diwalwal mineral reservation in Monkayo, Compostela Valley, in Mindanao. Jake Mining is the “successor in interest” of publicly listed Apex Mining Co., which held the Diwalwal claim in the 1980s. The unified indigenous people (IP) [...]
LUBUAGAN, Kalinga – In Barangay (village) Mabilong here, weaving is a sacred tradition passed on from mother to daughter. This is why every house in this remote community has women skilled enough to weave traditional garments, from which they earn a tidy profit, says Josephine Fejer, 46. “I was in Grade 3 when my mother [...]
