Tampakan
MANILA (Reuters): The Philippines' biggest mining project, the Tampakan copper-gold site in Mindanao, may begin commercial operations at the earliest in the last quarter of 2026, the chief executive of project developer Sagittarius Mines Inc. said on Friday (Aug 4).
Regulatory concerns over the Tampakan project, which had been hampered by a 12-year provincial ban on open-pit mining that was lifted last year, have been "reduced to almost zero", Sagittarius president and CEO Roy Deveraturda said in a speech at an industry forum.
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