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The Tampakan gold and copper deposit is situated in the mountains surrounding the town Tampakan in the South Cotabato province in the Philippines. [5] The deposit was discovered in November 1990 by the Australian company Western Mining Corporation (WMC), who acquired mining rights in Tampakan through a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) with the Philippine government. [6]
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.
VTP Mining and Construction Inc. Macventures Mining and Development Corporation (MMDC) Carrascal Nickel Corporation (CNC) Hinatuan Mining Corporation (HMC) Cagdianao Mining Corporation (CMC) Libjo Mining Corporation (LMC) AAM-Phil Natural Resources Exploration &Devt. Corp. Century Peak Corporation (CPC) BenguetCorp Nickel Mines Incorporated.
Peak copper is the point in time at which the maximum global copper production rate is reached. Since copper is a finite resource, at some point in the future new production from mining will diminish, and at some earlier time production will reach a maximum. When this will occur is a matter of dispute.
Production trends in the top five copper-producing countries, 1950-2012. This is a list of countries by mined copper production. Copper ore can be exported to be smelted so that a nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production. See: List of countries by copper smelter production.
Tampakan mine. Categories: Copper mines by country. Mines in the Philippines.
Canatuan mine. Coordinates: 7.7332°N 122.2800°E. The Canatuan mine was a gold/silver, copper /zinc open-pit mine located in the province of Zamboanga del Norte on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines. The mine was operated from 2004 to January 2014 by TVI Resource Development (Phils) Inc., a former subsidiary of Canadian-based TVI ...
Copper Mountain mine. Duck Pond mine. Galore Creek mine. Gibraltar Mine. Highland Valley Copper mine. Huckleberry mine. Kidd Creek mine. Mount Polley mine. New Afton mine.