September
14, 1992 - Manila Mining Corp. (MMC) filed a Mineral
Production Sharing Agreement (MPSA) application denominated as
APSA-000006-X.
December
29, 2000 - A Temporary Exploration Permit was issued
to MMC located in Placer, Surigao del Norte denominated as TEP
No. XIII-003-2000 (1,180.2606 Has.)
November
5, 2001 - MMC started to establish exploration field
office within Bgy. Anislagan, Placer but some residents dismantled
the structures.
February
19, 2002 - MMC filed an application for conversion of
the portion of its APSA-000006-X to an Exploration Permit application
(2,462.9152 ha.).
June
27, 2002 - Thru the Memorandum of the Mines and Geosciences
Bureau (MGB) Regional Office (RO) No. XIII, the Petition of the
residents of Bgy. Anislagan not to allow MMC and any other firms
to conduct mining operations in their Barangay, among others,
was forwarded.
July
11, 2002 - Thru the Memorandum of the MGB Director, the
clearance to issue the Exploration Permit was granted to MGB RO
No. XIII.
July 17, 2002 - MGB RO No. XIII issued the Exploration Permit
to MMC denominated as EP-XIII-014.
September
2, 2002 - MGB RO No. XIII received Resolution No. 2002-007
of the Sangguniang Barangay of Anislagan requesting the MGB to
cancel EP-XIII-014 of MMC.
September
9, 2002 - Sangguniang Bayan Resolution No. 2002-060 of
Placer was issued requesting MGB RO No. XIII to declare a Moratorium
of the exploration activity in Barangay Anislagan, Surigao del
Norte.
September
20, 2002 - Thru the Letter of MGB Director, MMC and Bgy.
Chairman were requested to maintain a status qou situation in
Bgy. Anislagan.
October
11, 2002 - Two of the MMC drilling equipment were set
on fire by certain anti-MMC residents.
July
16, 2004 - MMC filed the application to renew its EP-XIII-014
covering the entire Permit Area.
July
17, 2004 - EP-XIII-014 expired.
2005
- The Sangguniang Barangay of Anislagan issued the Resolution
No. 03, Series of 2005, requesting not to issue the renewal of
EP-XIII-014 to MMC as agreed upon during the Regular Session of
the said Sanggunian on January 8, 2005.
November
29, 2005 - Thru the Letter of MGB Director, MMC was informed
that its renewal application was ready for formal acceptance and
was also advised to comply with certain requirements prior to
the release of the Permit that shall be renewed.
November
30, 2005 - The renewal application of MMC was approved
by the MGB pursuant to Section 4 of DENR Administrative Order
(DAO) No. 2003-46.
December
13, 2005 - The DENR issued the Memorandum Order No. 2005-020
prescribing the guidelines in the issuance of EPs.
December
14, 2005 - The pertinent documents for the renewal of
EP-XIII-014 of MMC were forwarded to the Office of the Undersecretary
for Mining and Legal Affairs upon the instruction of then Undersecretary
Deinrado D. Dimalibot for notation of the said Permit
January
19, 2006 - Thru its Letter, MMC submitted the documents
in compliance with the Letter dated November 29, 2005 of the MGB
Director for the release of the renewed Permit. Copies of Resolution
No. 2005-127 of the Sangguniang Bayan of Placer, Surigao del Norte
favorably indorsing the renewal of EP-XIII-014 and the Memorandum
of Agreement (MoA) it entered into with the Municipal Government
of Placer were also submitted by MMC.
The said MoA shows, among others, that no exploration activities
shall be conducted by MMC within the proposed water source in
Barangay Anislagan and that MMC shall see to it that the existing
water source in Barangays Macalaya and Boyongan of the same municipality
shall not be affected by its exploration activities.
March
10, 2006 - The DENR returned the pertinent documents
to MGB, but without the notation of Undersecretary Dimalibot in
the Permit.
March
20, 2006 - The MGB re-submitted the pertinent documents
to the DENR for clearance /approval by the secretary.
