John Kevin D.

VIllar

Effects Mining in the Philippines

Philippines
Mineral Resources
Ranked 5th in the world for in the world for overall
mineral reserves

2nd in gold

3rd in copper

US$840 billion (PhP47 trillion) untapped mineral

wealth worth

10 times the country’s annual gross domestic product (GDP)

204.7 Billion
Philippine Mining production value
Economic Contribution
Economic Contribution

P 84.2 billion
or 0.7 % of the GDP
Economic Contribution

$4.1 billion in metallics &

$ 244 million in non-metallics

or 6.0 -6.5 percent of mining

contribution to export.
Economic Contribution

235,000 Individual

or 0.6% of mining contribution to

total employment.
Economic Contribution

$ 244 million
P 27.8 billion
total taxes, fees and
6.5 % Contribution to
royalties collected
Export (metallic minerals only)
Environmental
Concern on
Mining
 Mining Incident
in the Philippines
Lepanto Manila Mining Corporation
Consolidated
In July 1987, a dam failure resulting in a
Mining
Corporation spill of an unknown quantity of cyanide
In the 1960s, tailings causing fish kill in Placer, Surigao
the collapse of Del Norte.
Lepanto tailings
dam no.1 caused Philex Gold in the Negros Occidental, in 1995, leak
a tailings spill in the decant tower of tailings pond no.1 at the
onto the rice
Bulawan gold mine, resulting in siltation in the
fields of Lipa-an,
Paco.
Sipalay River.

Lepanto Manila Mining Corporation March 1996, a open pit

In September 1995, The drainage tunnel burst and
Consolidated
50,000 cubic meters of millions of tons of tailings
Mining Corporation
released tailings led to filled the Makulaquit and
In 1986, collapse of
coastal pollution that was Boac river systems. Five
tailings pond
connected by some villages had to be
leading to siltation
residents to the death of evacuated, and an
of the Abra River
12 people. estimated 20,000 villagers
and affecting nine
were affected
municipalities.
 In 1999 in Atlas Nicua Mining
Consolidated Mining
Corporation in June
estimated 5.7 million cubic
meters of acidic water into 2012, a fish kill
the Sapangdaku River, which occurred in Lake Bito,
flows into the open sea. a rich fishing ground
in Leyte.
April 1999, another tailings spill resulted in
the release of about 700,000 tons of cyanide
tailings and the burial of 17 homes.

in 1997 ,Philex Gold

Zamboanga del Norte, In August 2012, a
heavy rain led to a Lepanto Consolidated Mining waste spill happened in
dam overflow at the CorporationIn July 1999 a massive the province of
Sibutad gold project, land subsidence in Colalo that Benguet. About 20
leading to fish kills. buried an entire elementary school million metric tons of
building tailings gushed out from
the tailings-pond of
Philex's Padcal mines
 Environmental Effect of
Mining

• Land destruction, subsidence and water loss

• Pollution of Water and Soil, including Acid Mine
Drainage
• Siltation
• Waste Management
• Biodiversity and Habitat
A young miner tends a ball mill beneath a Diwalwal home. Mercury in the blue pan is used
during the process. Image by Larry C. Price. Philippines, 2013.
 3a (left) and 3b (below). Acid Mine Drainage
(AMD) in the former Hixbar Mining area,
Carogcog Saday (left) and Lafayette area in
Pagcolbon (below) in year 2000. Water is
contaminated with lead and cadmium. Soil
has very high arsenic content.

Retrieved from
http://www.adnu.edu.ph/institutes/inecar/a
rticle22706.asp
Claver Bay has been massively silted and polluted, near Taganito Mining Corporation, Kepha Mining
Corporation, Surigao Integrated Resources Corporation, Claver Mineral Development Corporation, Adnama Mining
Resources, Incorporated and North Dinagat Mineral Resources Corporation.

Retrieved from https://newworldphil.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/216/

One of the rivers in Claver, Surigao del Norte that a Japanese NGO claims is contaminated.
Water in Surigao, Palawan mining communities contaminated - NGO
By: Erwin Mascarinas, InterAksyon.com
September 9, 2012 2:04 AM
Retrieved from http://www.interaksyon.com/business/42651/water-in-surigao-palawan-mining-communities-contaminated---ngo
A river in Malimono town in Surigao del Norte has become murky from silt caused by
small-scale mining activities. The silt is being carried down to the sea. Photo taken
on April 13, 2014.MindaNews photo by Roel N. Catoto
Lepanto Consolidated Mine. Environmental disaster in Mankayan, Benguet
the massive sinking, landslide and ground subsidence in Colalo Mankayan
Nicua Mining Corp.spilling resulted to a fish killining in Lake Bito, Leyte
 Social Impacts
Economic Dislocation

Health impacts
Violation of Human Rights
Security firms and militarization
Extrajudicial killings