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The order was issued in compliance with the 30-day test-run extension given to the RRPI to pave the way for the DENR to decide on the issuance of a permanent lifting order so the company may resume normal operations.


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Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Angelo Reyes ordered the payment and the new safeguards as conditions before the test run, which would involve only water initially to allow the company’s technicians to check the system for leaks and further fine-tuning.


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The dam serves as a catchment for mine tailings produced after the ore is processed for gold and silver. The tailings, which contain cyanide and other chemicals used to separate the precious metals, will be impounded in the dam until it can be recycled back into the mining operations.


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These direct job and business opportunities, according to the company, have a multiplier effect as they encourage new businesses to be put up and employ more people. 


On top of these, the project will be paying taxes both to the local and national governments, it said.


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DENR to assess Albay mine site

By Perseus Echeminada | December 18, 2006 - 12:00am

Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Angelo Reyes has ordered an assessment of the mining operations of the Rapu-Rapu Processing Inc. (RRPI) in Albay after a series of typhoons hit the country. The...

Nation

Lafayette pays P10.4-M fine, readies test-run of polymetallic project

June 25, 2006 - 12:00am

Lafayette Phils. is completing additional pollution safeguards imposed by the government and paid last Tuesday a P10.4-million fine for two mine incidents in October preparatory to testing its processing facilities...

Nation

Mining firm inaugurates P140-M tailings dam

May 18, 2006 - 12:00am

SIOCON, Zamboanga del Norte — Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Angelo Reyes and Canadian Ambassador Peter Sutherland inaugurated last week the P140-million Gossan Dam at the mining site of TVI Resources...

Nation

Lafayette to pump P320 M yearly into local economy

February 23, 2006 - 12:00am

Lafayette Phils. Inc. (LPI) will pump about P320 million each year in and around Rapu-Rapu in Albay in the form of salaries and wages and the purchase of goods and services once it resumes its operations. These...

Nation

Dominguez named Lafayette Phils CEO

By Rocel Felix | January 18, 2006 - 12:00am

A group of international investors represented by former Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez is investing P39.54 million (A$1 million) into Lafayette Philippines Inc., operator...

Business