Mancao earlier appealed to President Benigno Aquino to order a stop to the illegal mining activities which polluted their streams and rivers and posed hazards to their health.
He said their water sources are polluted due to the hazardous and toxic chemicals – cyanide, nitric acid and mercury - that illegal miners used in Balabag.
“Look at our streams, the water is now yellowish and that is because of the chemicals used by these illegal miners. We have been telling the government to put a stop to these illegal activities,” Mancao told the Mindanao Examiner.
He said the illegal mining activities brought deaths and miseries to a lot of families because of the unsafe mining practice in Balabag.
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