SURIGAO CITY - The mining industry is set to take center stage for the three-day Mindanao Business Conference (MinBizCon) that…
Photo credit: surigao-city.de By Vanessa L Almeda SURIGAO CITY — At least 1,500 drivers of tricycles — the city’s main public transport — have…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT units (LGUs) will have to share a smaller pool of money next year as their internal revenue allotment (IRA) shrank slightly, accordi…
THE COUNTRY’S biggest miner, Philex Mining Corp. yesterday said its Silangan project in the province of Surigao del Norte is estimated to contain cop…
PACIFIC NICKEL Philippines, Inc. (PNPI), a subsidiary of Philnico Industrial Corp. on Wednesday expressed disappointment over the government's su…
Barely six months since it opened, this city’s night cafe has failed to meet expectations. Pacifico E. Dolon, Jr., the city treasurer’s office div…
During the rainy season from November to March, the water level of Lake Mainit rises by at least one meter. When typhoons hit, the lake, which is sha…
ORIENTAL VISION Mining Philippines Corp., an associate of publicly listed NiHao Minerals International Corp., completed its first shipment of nickel …
They call it pidjanga, a very thin, very flat pancake consisting of fish -- tiny, newly hatched fingerlings of freshwater white goby (or bi-ya in Tag…
Surigao City - An environmental case was filed here Tuesday, June 22 under new rules approved by the Supreme Court that took effect last April. The …
ONE OF the world’s largest miners, the Phoenix, Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc., has expressed interest to invest as much as $…
An airport improvement project in Siargao Island has been inspected by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo but the incomplete facility failed to underg…
CANADIAN miner MBMI Resources, Inc. has tapped the debt market anew to raise funds for nickel exploration projects in the Philippines. MBMI Resources…
Exploration by Canadian miner Mindoro Resources, Ltd. indicates an estimated nickel resource of 50 million-70 million dry metric tons (MT) at a nicke…
Listed Century Peak Metals Holdings Corp. has won a 25-year contract for a limestone project in Central Visayas, the miner told the stock exchange ye…
The newly formed Mindanao Tourism Council is concerned over the dearth of new travel packages offered by Mindanao tour operators that could attract t…
THE DEPARTMENT of Energy (DoE) will award five more coal contracts tomorrow in addition to the 11 which were previously awarded. "These are the …
The Siargao airport in Surigao del Norte is nearing completion after failing to open in the first quarter of this year, the Transportation and Commun…
CANADIAN MINER MBMI Resources, Inc. has secured a $200,000 loan from a European bank to fund its nickel exploration projects in southern Luzon and ea…
Canada’s MBMI Resources, Inc. is aiming to obtain the second tranche of its $3-million secured loan from a European bank to fund nickel exploration p…