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King-king project secures ECC for $2-B copper-gold project

March 4, 2015 - 12:00am

The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) has issued an Environment Compliance Certificate (ECC) to the $2 billion King-king copper-gold project in Campostela Valley of US-based St. Augustine Gold and Copper Limited...

Business

St Augustine renews talks with EMB

February 12, 2014 - 12:00am

US-based miner St. Augustine Copper and Gold Ltd. (SAGC), the contractor for the proposed $2 billion copper-gold mine in Pantukan, Campostela Valley, has resumed engagement with the Environmental Management Bureau...

Business

MGB shelves mining permit for King King project

November 28, 2013 - 12:00am

The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has put on hold the evaluation of the mining permit for the proposed $2 billion King King copper-gold project in Campostella Valley pending the resolution of the intra-corporate...

Business

Feasibility study shows King King project profitable

September 20, 2013 - 12:00am

The King King copper-gold project of Nationwide Development Corp. and Canadian miner St. Agustine is seen to be profitable for its duration, results of the pre-feasibility study for the project showed.

Business

King King plant to open by 2016

June 10, 2013 - 12:00am

The operators of the King King copper-gold project in Compostela Valley are optimistic that the company would be able to commission the mine between 2015 and 2016.

Business

EO halves mining investments to $160 M in H1

November 18, 2012 - 12:00am

Mining investments fell by half in the first semester of the year to $160 million from the $309.31 million registered in the...

Business

Benguet in discussion with several foreign investors, says Romualdez

By Marianne V. Go | March 16, 2005 - 12:00am

Benguet Corp. president Benjamin Philip Romualdez yesterday disclosed that it is in discussion with several foreign investors, including a South African mining firm, for its various mining projects. Specifically,...

Business

Revival of mining industry urged

By Marianne V. Go | July 1, 2004 - 12:00am

Trade and Industry Secretary Cesar V. Purisima yesterday reiterated his call for the revival of the mining industry. "The revival of the mining industry will definitely spur the development of the country’s...

Business