Free-for-all gold hunt in Surigao

Supposed small-scale operators allegedly with a permit from the province’s governor have turned to open-pit mining, turning vast tracts of farmlands in a gold-rich village in this town into what looks like craters the size of coliseums.
The mining operations are being financed by Taiwanese investors and have ceased briefly in the past, but have resumed in the gold-rich mining village of Tambis.
The unabated mining operations, which are taking place just 200 meters from the national highway, have resulted in excavations that have gone as deep as the bedrock of several hectares of farms, destroying these in the process.
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