PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte maintained that he would not lift the ban on open-pit mining amid calls from a government mining review group to reverse the policy.
Speaking to reporters in Taguig City on Tuesday night, Duterte said he agreed with the open-pit mining ban given the environmental damage it causes.
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