{"id":1123823,"date":"2019-06-28T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=995286"},"modified":"2019-06-28T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:57:31","slug":"oceanagold-denies-shut-down-of-didipio-copper-gold-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1123823","title":{"rendered":"OceanaGold denies shut down of Didipio copper-gold mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s OceanaGold (ASX, TSX: OGC)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oceanagold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190627-OceanaGold-Didipio-Update-News-Release.pdf\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">said Friday<\/a> that rumours about a halt of operations at its copper-gold mine in the Philippines were just speculation.<\/p>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<p>The Kalikasan People\u2019s Network for the Environment claimed<br \/>\nearlier this week that local authorities had ordered the shutdown of OceanaGold\u2019s&nbsp; Didipio mine, located on the island of Luzon,<br \/>\nover alleged water and forest pollution caused by the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The Melbourne-based company said the local regulatory<br \/>\nauthority \u2013 the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) \u2013 had sent confirmation that<br \/>\nthe mine was permitted to continue operations, pending a financial or technical<br \/>\nassistance agreement (FTAA) renewal from the Philippine Government. OceanaGold<br \/>\nlodged its FTAA application in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Didipio, which began production in 2013, has a measured and<br \/>\nindicated resource of 1.3 million ounces of gold and 160,000 tonnes of copper<\/p>\n<p>The operation, 270 km north of Manila, is expected to churn<br \/>\nout this year between 120,000 and 130,000 ounces of gold and 14,000 to 15,000<br \/>\ntonnes of copper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&rsquo;s OceanaGold (ASX, TSX: OGC)&nbsp;said Friday that rumours about a halt of operations at its copper-gold mine in the Philippines were just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123838,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123823\/revisions\/1123838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}