The Tampakan project was suspended after Xstrata's and Indophil's local partner, Sagittarius Mines Inc (SMI), was denied an Environment Compliance Certificate (ECC) by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
In January, DENR thumbed down SMI's application for an ECC, a vital requirement before any mining project can go ahead, because of a local ordinance in South Cotabato that bans open-pit mining, the method to be used in the project's operations. The local government cited environmental reasons.
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