GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The city council here expressed opposition to the planned open-pit mining operation in nearby Tampakan, South Cotabato province, mistrustful of its possible adverse environmental impact.In its regular session Tuesday, the Sangguniang Panlungsod unanimously passed a resolution declaring that open-pit mining is historically disastrous and poses more risks, especially to the environment, than generating supposed economic benefits.
The city council passed the resolution in the wake of the lifting last week by the South Cotabato provincial board of the province’s 12-year ban on open-pit mining, as set in Section 22 of its Environment Code. Sagittarius Mines, Inc. earlier revealed in a study that the most viable way to extract the minerals in Tampakan is through open-pit mining. The Tampakan project is touted as the largest undeveloped copper-gold minefield in Southeast Asia and among the biggest of its kind in the world. It has the potential to yield an average of 375,000 tons of copper and 360,000 ounces of gold in concentrate per annum in the expected 17-year life of the mine.
He cited the generation of “acidic and/or heavy metal-laden water, erosion of mine waste dumps, and/or vulnerability of tailing dams to geological hazards.”
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