MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine lawmakers have filed a bill seeking to ban mining in watershed areas and exports of unprocessed ores and will require miners to get legislative approval before operating, ...

The stock rout wiped out $883 million in the combined market value of both companies as Semirara and DMCI shares plunging as ...

A nickel stockpile towers over farmer Moharen Tambiling's rice paddy in the Philippines' Palawan, evidence of a mining boom that locals hope a new moratorium will tame. "They told us before the start ...

MacArthur residents in Leyte form human barricades to stop black sand mining machinery. Explore fears of rice field destruction, water pollution, and environmental loss.

Shipments of nickel ore from the Philippines to Indonesia could as much as double to hit 30 million tons this year, a leading ...

MANILA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A nickel mining hub in the southern Philippines, which produces mostly high-grade material, has suspended extraction operations indefinitely as the regional government ...

A Filipino indigenous Igorot tribe member holds a placard as she joins a protest in Manila in early February against large scale mining. (CNS photo/Francis R. Malasig, EPA) Residents of a central ...

I wrote a few weeks back about cracks appearing in the Philippines’ government war on mining. And yesterday, the anti-mining movement suffered a major blow. With controversial Environment Secretary ...

An environmental lawsuit filed by a Philippine province against Placer Dome Inc., Canada's second- largest gold producer, may not damp overseas investments in Philippines mining industry, a government ...

MANILA (Reuters) - After the Philippines became the top supplier of nickel ore to China in the last two years, its struggling mining industry may have felt like it was turning a corner. But hope in ...