Philippines Positions as Stable Critical Minerals Partner as Indonesia Recalibrates Nickel Supply Policy
Philippine nickel industry offers ASEAN a diversified, dependable partner amid evolving critical minerals supply chains
Philippine nickel industry offers ASEAN a diversified, dependable partner amid evolving critical minerals supply chains
originally published in BusinessWorld NICKEL PRODUCERS said on Tuesday that the government should focus on easing the mining permit process and reduce production costs instead of imposing a mineral export ban, which it said will damage the Philippines’ standing in global value chains at a time when a market rebound is looming. The government is […]
The Philippine Nickel Industry Association (PNIA) urged the Senate to reconsider its proposed five-year ban on raw mineral exports, saying the ban will hit small-scale miners the hardest.
Philippine nickel miners and Chinese battery makers are exploring a potential collaboration ahead of Indonesia’s ban on ore exports by 2020.
The Philippine Nickel Industry Association (PNIA) held a press conference for the media launch of its “Nickel Initiative 2019: Shaping Tomorrow, Together” last 30 January 2019. In attendance were the PNIA officer and board members headed by Chairman Mr. Isidro Alcantara Jr., Chairman Emeritus Mr. Clarence Pimentel Jr., PNIA President Atty. Dante Bravo; ECCP Executive Director Mr. […]
“Our partnership with the mining sector is to help in the propagation of bamboo and using bamboo as a material on a horizontal application – it’s really finding more industries in which bamboo can be used. The partnership with the mining communities aims to close the supply-chain gap,” Matute said of Design Center’s Manila FAME exhibit co-presenter Philippine Nickel Industry Association (PNIA) and event partner Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) in their efforts to transform post mining communities.
Ang bamboo reforestation program ay pagpapalawig sa layunin ng mga kompanya ng nickel na mapaigting ang pagsagip sa kalikasan kasabay ng pagbibigay ng pagkakakitaan sa mga “host communities.”
Philippine Nickel Industry Association chairman and Marcventures Holdings president Isidro Alcantara Jr. presents the collective nickel industry rehabilitation accomplishment and the bamboo plantation program to Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu during the Fourth Forum on the Mining Policy Direction.
Marcventures Mining and Development Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of listed Marcventures Holdings Inc., makes bamboo farming the heart of its mining rehabilitation program.