Hinatuan Mining gives away expensive ornamental plants

THE kind of soil in a mining area is lateritic — reddish clayey, rusty, hard when dry, often rocky — making it challenging to grow anything, much more ornamental plants.

But long before the "plantitas and plantitos" craze became a thing, the environment protection and enhancement team of Hinatuan Mining Corp. (HMC) in Surigao del Norte, subsidiary of Nickel Asia Corp. (NAC), has been propagating expensive and exotic ornamental plants as part of the mining company's rehabilitation program. And for fun, HMC gives away some of these plants as gift to visitors at the mine site.