Officials quash plan, for now, to develop Philippines’ biggest copper mine

Mongabay
Aug 30, 2020, 9:44 pm520 ptsHot
SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — Officials in the southern Philippines have canceled a $5.9 billion project to exploit Southeast Asia’s largest known undeveloped copper and gold reserves, but have left open the possibility of the venture being revived. The municipal council of Tampakan, home to 40,000 people…

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