Any news about the DRILLINGS in Brgy Tapian?

Last year, 30 March 2006, I blogged about Mindoro Resources Ltd (Mindorel) and it's plan to start drilling operations in Brgy. Tapian and Brgy. San Francisco in Mainit. A month earlier than that post, Monyx, shared with me links to Mindorel's shots of the target mining sites in Mainit.

The series of posts I put here in Pidjanga Blog, including the coverage of GMA 7, the country's leading TV Network, about the potential link between soil erosions in Mainit and Mindorel's drilling operations, has eventually landed my email to Mindorel's email list.

I tried asking specific questions about their mining claims in Mainit, but they never replied. I was hoping too that the current Local Government Unit officials will respond to the queries in my posts i.e. was there any community consultation before the claim was granted to Mindorel? Is the contract (or whatever paper Mindorel is having right now) for exploration only or for full-blast mining? etcetera, etcetera. There was none.

Until now, no one knows the specific plans of Mindorel.

I used to be 100% against any form of mining. But because of the recent updates in mining technology, I now believe that responsible mining is possible. However, it should be stressed that both environmental and sociological impact should be assessed before any exploration or mining will be done. And results of these should be widely disseminated to the surrounding communities.

Mindorel... where are these?

Mayor Roger? Vice Mayor Paniamogan? Councilors? Please, let the Pidjangas know.

The barangays of Tapian and San Francisco are within the shores of our beloved Lake Mainit... We don't want to deprive our children and grandchildren with the beauty and bounty the lake has given us, do we?

Zimm

An Excerpt About MINDORO (www.mindoro.com)
Mindoro is a Tier 1 Issuer trading on the TSX-V (MIO) and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (OLM). The company has identified 22 porphyry copper-gold prospects and a nickel laterite prospect in the Philippines and has an aggressive strategy of drilling multiple targets in 2006.

Post: Zimm (www.pidjanga.blogspot.com)
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