BAGUIO CITY: The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has projected doubling of the number of mines in the country with easing of restrictions on processing of mining permits and lifting of the ban on open-pit mining.

Marshall Mateo, chief science research specialist of the MGB central office's Mine Safety, Environment and Social Development Division, over the weekend said the more than 100 mines in the Philippines at present are expected to double in number with renewed processing of the permits to operate that had been pending over the past several years and the lifting of the ban enforced by the Duterte administration.

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