At least 3 dead, 6 missing in Antique mining pit collapse

07/17/2015

ILOILO CITY–Part of the Panian mining pit on Semirara Island collapsed early Friday leaving at least three workers dead, six others missing. Isidro Consunji, President of DMCI Holdings which operates the Semirara Mining Corporation, said that non-stop rain over…

Small-scale mining shut down in Bonbon

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/23/2015

The Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday stopped three small-scale coal mining activities in barangay Bonbon, Cebu City. A cease-and-desist order was delivered to Paulino Bonghanoy in sitio Camarin yesterday morning by DOE Visayas Field Office representatives, led…

Former Consolacion town mayor, 7 others face illegal mining charges

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 04/15/2015

Former Mayor Avelino Gungob Sr. of Consolacion town, Cebu and seven others are facing trial on accusations of illegal mining of limestone in 2009. Aside from Gungob, the Omdudsman also found probable cause to indict job order…

Displaced Danao miners urged shift to farming

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/30/2014

  Miners who were displaced by the closure of a mining firm in Danao City following an accident that killed one person were advised  to shift to farming. Councilor Roland P. Reyes encouraged the affected miners, who…

Groups to stage rally on fossil fuel use and mining expansion in Cebu

Marian Z. Codilla 03/28/2014

Over 100 youth and ecology advocates from 50 groups will stage a rally to denounce the continued use of fossil fuels and mining expansion in Cebu. The rallyists who form part of the so-called Sulong Power Shift…

Young life snuffed out in mining accident

Carine M. Asutilla, Jhunnex Napallacan, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/03/2014

Mamatay na man tingali ko ani, tiyo, naglisud na man ko’g ginhawa,” (I’ll probably end up dead, uncle. I can’t breathe.) These were the last words heard from 22-year-old miner Melvin Landero before the coal mine shaft…

1 missing, 3 hurt in Danao mine accident

Bjorn Abraham Tabanera, Jhunnex Napallacan, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 03/02/2014

A 20-year-old miner was missing and is feared dead while three others were injured when a section of a coal mine in Danao City in northern Cebu caved in yesterday morning, authorities said . Police identified the…

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