The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has ordered the closure of 23 mining firms and the suspension of five others for violations of environmental laws and regulations. As in all such major government actions, there are pros and cons that ...

The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) on Tuesday cited its right-to-know under the Freedom of Information (FOI) to compel the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to make public the audit report which was the basis for the closure of...

The mining sector was left crippled after the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) decided to close down more than half of all the mine operations in the country and suspends seven more as the result of the nationwide audit it launched last y...

:The Philippine government has cancelled the environmental permits for four more mining projects, including one planned nickel venture, as the world’s top nickel ore supplier deepens a months-long crackdown on the resources sector.

The Philippines will lift economic growth rate beyond seven percent by unleashing the huge potential of mining and revitalizing the steel industry, according to a Filipino expert.

The government is drafting a regulation offering further relief in the export of raw and partly processed mineral products — a policy that, if passed, would again contravene the 2009 Mining Law that requires a total ban on such exports.

Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez said on Thursday that the DENR has cancelled the environmental compliance certificates (ECCs) of three mining projects including Ipilan Nickel Project of Ipilan Nickel Corp., Nickel Deposit Mining Projec...

www.ferro-alloys.com:The Philippine government wants to finish auditing at least 25 out of 800 existing environmental compliance certificates (ECCs) within this year as it remains committed to get rid of companies who have spawned negative impact on the enviro...