GONZAGA, Cagayan: Local officials in this mineral-rich coastal town have belied reports that they are abetting illegal black sand mining or extraction.

Led by Mayor Carlito Pentecostes Jr., local officials said that all the existing mining operations or any extraction activities in their magnetite-rich coastal town have pertinent and legal papers and transport permits.

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