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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Balabag Mining, A Disaster In The Making

 It is home to thousands of small scale miners due to its rich gold deposits, but Balabag village in the hinterlands of Bayog town here is a disaster in the making.
With local miners crisscrossing underneath the rich-gold mountains, the village hosts more than 100 tunnels for small-scale mining operations since the discovery of the deposits in the 1980s.

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