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Marcopper Mining was a Canadian corporation that officially started its copper mining operations in 1969 at the Mt. Tapian Ore Deposit on Marinduque Island in the Philippines. When the Mt. Tapian reserve was depleted in 1990, Marcopper moved its operations to the San Antonio copper mine, three kilometers north of the Mt. Tapian site.
Caritas Philippines opened bank accounts to collect donations for victims of the landslide and flooding in Mindanao. [46] Kilusang Mayo Uno called for an investigation as to whether the mine itself and Apex mining company's labor practices contributed to the scale of the disaster. [47]
Tampakan mine. The Tampakan deposit is a large copper and gold orebody located in the south of the Philippines in Tampakan, South Cotabato. Tampakan represents one of the largest copper resources in the Philippines and in the world having an estimated resource of 2.94 billion tonnes of ore grading 0.6% copper. The deposit also has a resource of ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The death toll from a massive landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has risen to 54 with 63 people still missing, authorities said Sunday.
Aloysius “Ochie” Ureta Baes (July 28, 1948 – December 21, 2006) [1] was a Filipino chemist, environmentalist, pro-democracy activist, educator and musician.. Late in his career, Baes was best known for his environmental activism, playing key roles in exposing the role of mining and logging companies in the 1991 Ormoc tragedy, the Marcopper mining disaster, the Rapu-rapu mining disaster ...
Typhoon Lola (1993) Typhoon Lola, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Monang, [1] was a deadly typhoon that impacted the Philippines and Indochina. The 47th tropical depression, 26th named storm, and 14th typhoon of the 1993 Pacific typhoon season, the origins of Lola can be traced back to an active near-equatorial trough.
Pages in category "Mining disasters in the Philippines" ... Marcopper mining disaster This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 18:20 (UTC). ...
Website. www.nickelasia.com. Nickel Asia Corporation (NAC) is a diversified natural resources development company in the Philippines, comprising six operating and two exploratory mines and interests in the country's only two high-pressure acid leach (HPAL) plants and in a renewable energy subsidiary.