Fearing possible pullout of the $5.9-billion Tampakan copper-gold project, tribal leaders in South Cotabato appealed to President Benigno Aquino 3rd, asking for government’s full commitment in the realization of what could be the Philippines’ biggest mining project to date.

In a resolution filed to the Office of the President, the Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs) and South Cotabato Provincial Tribal Council (PTC) expressed full support to Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI), the private contractor of the Tampakan project.

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