Illegal miners befoul rice terraces
By Ted Boehnert 03/19/2012Illegal small-scale miners from Nueva Vizacaya have started entering the neighboring tourism-oriented Ifugao Province to engage in mining activities there, Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat confirmed to the Tribune yesterday.
Baguilat said he was saddened over reports that certain money personalities from the mountain areas of Nueva Vizcaya and who have ancestral roots in Ifugao have reportedly entered the latter province to conduct exploratory activities small-scale mining.
“It is very sad that these people are even using mercury in the process of gold which is not regulated,” Baguilat said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120319nat1.html
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