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Mining row brews up on San Jorge


A drilling operation on San Jorge Island
Published date: 3-Aug-2022

Another row over resources is brewing on the resource-rich island of San Jorge in Isabel Province. This time, it’s over minerals.

It comes as the long-running legal battle over the island’s rare tubi trees between resource owners and Asian loggers lie unresolved before the courts.

In this latest dispute, two Asian funded mining companies backed by rival landowners were at each other over rights to mine the island.

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