CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro: The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (Provincial Board) has approved and passed a 25-year moratorium on large scale mining and a ban on small scale mining for 15 years.

Believing that achieving development should not be at the expense of the environment, the 10th Sangguniang Panlalawigan upheld the propriety and legality of Provincial Ordinance 001-2002 the moratorium of mining in the province.

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