MANILA, June 25 (Reuters) - Philex Mining Corp, the Philippines' top gold and copper producer, is looking to reduce the cost of its $1.5-billion Silangan project by as much as two-thirds via the use ...

This proposal outlines a machine learning-based approach aimed at improving productivity in haulage operations within ...

MANILA, June 23 (Reuters) - The incoming minister in charge of Philippine mining has slammed the use of open pits to extract minerals, describing it as "madness" even to consider the method in the ...

Catholic bishops in the Philippines have long fought against open-pit mining — a surface method of extracting rock or minerals from an open-air pit otherwise known as a “borrow” mine or a “quarry.” ...

A court has upheld a ban on open-pit mining in the Philippine province of South Cotabato, home to the largest known untapped deposits of copper and gold in Southeast Asia. The ruling is the latest ...

No government agency publishes information about the number of open-pit mines domestically or globally. Nor is there a reliable public source of information about the dollar size of the open-pit ...

On Dec. 23, Philippine Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu issued an order overturning a 2017 ban on open-pit mining. This follows an April 2021 decision by President Rodrigo Duterte to lift a 2012 ...