A technical panel under the multi-stakeholder Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) has been tasked to study the possible lifting of a ban on open pit mining.

“[The] MICC tasked the technical working group on economic affairs and on environment to again study whether open pit mining should be allowed or not,” Finance Undersecretary and MICC member Bayani Agabin told reporters.

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