She said the small mining area, located some 30 minutes away from Baguio City, which in turn is located some 206 kilometers from Manila, still adopted the traditional mining method of using cyanide instead of mercury to extract gold from the mountains and the people did not cut trees for their operations.
“By next week I’m going to authorize it as Minahang Bayan (community mining) and we’re going to make the place really, really beautiful,” she said.
“They are mining for gold and the mining process does not destroy the environment. And because it is still beautiful…it is a mining possibility that benefits the community,” she added. The inter-agency Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) on Thursday approved a resolution that calls for the creation of group that will review mining contracts and other related laws and formulate measures to help people displaced by closed mines.
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