Funding issues have held up the Mining Industry Coordinating Council’s (MICC) review of closure and suspension orders served against 26 mining operations, a senior government official said.

“As usual the deadline was moved, as what had happened several times already. Again we had to deal with bureaucracy,” MICC member and Finance Undersecretary Bayani Agabin told reporters.

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