Santo Niño visits Carmen Copper

CEBU, Philippines — The image of Santo Niño de Cebu visited for the first time yesterday the Carmen Copper Corporation (CCC) in Barangay Das, Toledo City.

The visit was in time for CCC’s 14th celebration of responsible mining.

CCC employees and officials paid reverence to the visiting pilgrim image of the ‘miraculous’ Señor Sto. Niño.

The image was toured around the mine site and CCC’s major facilities. CCC has at least five chapels inside the mine site.

The image was then brought to the CCC Recreation Center for a prayer vigil, which was open to the public.

The holy image was brought back to Basilica del Sto. Niño later afternoon yesterday.

Moreover, roughly 350 indigents from Barangay Das benefitted from CCC’s annual medical mission in partnership with SM Foundation Incorporated. It was held at the CCC Hospital.

Beneficiaries availed of free consultation, medicines and laboratory services and examinations.

CCC also conducted blood donation activity in partnership with the Philippine Red Cross.

The activities were part of the CCC’s Social Development and Management Program, which focuses on building a sustainable community through the provision of quality healthcare services.

Aside from religious and medical activities, CCC also sent 100 employees to the Alay Lakad-Toledo City last week in support of the scholarship program for the out-of-school youth in the city.

Also last week, the first mining heritage center in Southeast Asia was inaugurated.

The Carmen Copper Heritage Center located in Toledo City opened its doors to relive the glorious beginning of mining in the city, celebrate the present and bring hope for the future.

 The heritage center serves as the repository of memories, both past and the present, of the men and women behind Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation and its subsidiary, the Carmen Copper Corporation.

 The heritage center is composed of three large galleries—the main exhibition halls, the Institutional History Gallery, the Art and Changing Exhibitions Gallery, and the Copper Science Gallery.

The center occupies two buildings repurposed into exhibition galleries, merged together by an outdoor exhibition showcasing some of heavy and massive equipment used in the extraction of copper.

There are also two dioramas at the Science Gallery which provide an accurate but scaled version of the mine which depicts the mine site as it looks today. — KBQ (FREEMAN)