Paje said a gold rush in Pantukan town has caused many small-scale miners in the province to conduct operations in the mountains, at the risk of their own lives. Earlier reports said miners could get as much as P1,900-P2,000 per gram of gold.
The environment chief said he surveyed Pantukan town before last April's landslide and found that the area is really like "a mountain full of holes made by small-scale miners."
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