Product Description
Mining has a long history in the Philippines going back to antiquity when its inhabitants mined for gold and other valuable minerals. This Southeast Asian country comprises an archipelago of 7,100 islands divided into three geographic regions, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The country has rich mineral resources forming part of the “Pacific Ring of Fire” which is so called because of the intense volcanic activity at the margins of the tectonic plates and is well-known for epithermal gold, porphyry copper-gold, and volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits. Principal minerals found in the Philippines include gold, copper, nickel, chromite and manganese. The Philippines has reserves of about 7 billion metric tons of metallic minerals and 52 billion metric tons of non-metallic minerals making it among the countries with the richest endowment in gold, copper and especially nickel.
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