“We were allowed to operate starting March 8,” he told reporters at the sidelines of the company’s stockholders’ meeting. Because of a suspension order, the company could not operate the Padcal mine in January and February.
In 2012, on the basis of a fully operational first quarter, Philex’s core income amounted to P1.330 billion, while its reported net income reached P1.268 billion.
Philex later said in a statement that the settlement of the company’s pollution liability insurance claim worth P1.017 billion “substantially covered the losses in the first two non-operational months.”
The company had to settle the claims arising from a spill at the Padcal mine’s Tailings Storage Facility 3.
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