The Philippine environment minister has asked President Rodrigo Duterte to halt a second review of 28 mines that she ordered closed or suspended, challenging its legality despite initially supporting it.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is looking at the possibility of banning the export of raw minerals in order to develop the country’s metals and mining downstream industries.

The Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands has now raised a point that has not been considered all this time – that the country should start moving to a higher level of the mining industry. We should not just export raw ore from our earth; we should st...

GLOBAL Ferronickel Holdings states that Platinum Group Metals Corp. (PGMC), a subsidiary, has signed an annual agreement of supplying 1 million wet tons of nickel ore with Baosteel Resources International.

A total of 75 philippine mining companies are now at risk of losing their Mineral Production Sharing Agreements (MPSA) it earlier got from the government, while the environmental permit of Southeast Asia’s largest undeveloped copper-gold mining project, which...

A total of 75 mining companies are now at risk of losing their Mineral Production Sharing Agreements (MPSA) it earlier got from the government.

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...