Australian mine site eyed as model; In rehabilitating abandoned Samar mine.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The government is eyeing the historic Brukunga mine site in Australia which has become an environmentally-sound valley with tailings as model in rehabilitating the Bagacay copper-iron mine which was virtually wrecked upon its abandonment in the 1990s. Michael V. Cabalda, mining...

Paving the way for responsible mining.
MINERALS have become more difficult to extract and profound changes are taking place in the environment. In earlier days, miners banded together in informal companies to dam rivers, reroute the water, and expose the gold and other minerals on the river beds. Today, mining corporations have developed extraction techniques...

Governor Rendell Announces $81,000 Investment to Replace Water Supplies Affected by Abandoned Mines in Clearfield County.
BECCARIA TOWNSHIP, Pa., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced the investment of $81,000 to extend municipal water lines and provide clean, reliable water supplies to 11 homes in Beccaria Township, Clearfield County, where wells have been affected by abandoned coal mines. The grant...

Group hits N. Vizcaya mine project; Remember the destruction of M'duque, priest counsels.
Byline: BINGO CADABONA BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya - A multi-sectoral group has rapped the proponents of the controversial multi-billion peso gold and copper project in the remote barangay of Didipio in Kasibu town, saying they're not being truthful when they vowed to espouse an environment-friendly operation. ...

Gov't takes over Marcopper rehabilitation.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The government is taking over rehabilitation of the Marcopper mine in Marinduque to avert any environmental disaster that may occur even as a provisional environmental compliance certificate (PECC) for Marcopper Mining Corp.s (PECC) rehabilitation of the site already lapsed. Department of...

Reyes orders assessment of mining test runs by Lafayette in Rapu-Rapu; Evaluation results to be made basis of DENR decision.
Byline: ELLALYN B. DE VERA Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Angelo Reyes ordered the other day final assessment of the test runs of Australian mining firm, Lafayette Philippines Inc. (LPI), on Rapu-Rapu Island, Albay. The results of the evaluation will be the basis of his...

Small miners told to obey the law.
Byline: EDU LOPEZ The government has warned small miners to comply with the environmental, safety, health and social provisions of the mining law. It was estimated that there are over 2,000 approved small-scale mining permits all over the country, benefiting about 200,000 people including miners...

Burden of Gilt.
The Mineral Policy Center was established in 1988 as a service bureau to educate and assist citizens' groups concerned with mineral threats to the environment and to lobby for reform amendments to federal mining law. Burden of Gilt is a thorough report on hardrock mining and the environmental damage...

'Clean up your mess,' DENR tells Marcopper.
Byline: MONICA T. MACARIOLA The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) issued a provisional environmental compliance certificate (ECC) to Marcopper Mining Corp. last week and directed the firm to immediately conduct remediation and rehabilitation activities in its former mining site in Sta. Cruz, Marinduque. ...

Iron uptake and translocation by facultative and obligate wetland plants.
INTRODUCTION Iron contamination exists in liquid waste streams from many industries including: (a) spent pickle and etch baths from plating shops and steel manufacturing (1-3) and (b) acid mine drainage, which is caused by the oxidation and hydrolysis of metal sulphides in water permeable strata or in...