ITOGON, Benguet: The Provincial Mining Regulatory Board (PMRB) declared a 64-hectare (ha) Minahang Bayan (Mining Town) in this mineral-rich town to be operated by a pocket mining group.

Fay Apil, PMRB chairman and regional director of the Cordillera office of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB-CAR), said 56-ha of the applied area is within the patented mineral claim of Benguet Corp., while the 8-ha that fall under the company’s Application for Production Sharing Agreement (APSA) would be subject to the required free and prior informed consent (FPIC) of the affected indigenous peoples (IPs) before these would be included in the declared site.

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