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CORRECTED-Nickel mining indefinitely suspended in southern Philippines -official

Published 09/16/2019, 04:32 PM
CORRECTED-Nickel mining indefinitely suspended in southern Philippines -official

(Corrects to show figures in millions of tonnes, paragraph 5)
MANILA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A nickel mining hub in southern
Philippines, which produces mostly high-grade material, has
suspended extraction operations indefinitely as the regional
government conducts an industry audit, a top government official
told Reuters on Monday.
The government of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (BARMM) has suspended operations of all four mining
companies in its jurisdiction, said Environment, Natural
Resources and Energy Minister Abdulraof Abdul Macacua.
"The suspension order was due to the ongoing review of
mining policy in BARMM," Macacua said in an e-mail reply to
Reuters' queries about the status of mining in the region's
Tawi-Tawi province.
The Philippines was the world's second-largest nickel ore
producer in 2018 after Indonesia, with both Southeast Asian
nations as the top two suppliers to biggest buyer China.
Latest available industry data showed that 2.34 million wet
metric tonnes of high-grade ore, or nearly 90% of 2.66 million
tonnes of high-grade material the Philippines exported to China
in the first half of 2018 came from Tawi-Tawi.



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