OceanaGold (Philippines) Inc. operates the Didipio gold and copper mine located in the northern Luzon region of the Philippines, approximately 270 km north-northeast of Metro Manila. The Didipio Mine is operated under a Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement ("FTAA") with the Government, which grants the Company title, …

By Marcelle Villegas The Didipio Mine of OceanaGold Philippines Inc. (OGPI) is a gold and copper mine located across the provinces of Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya. It is considered one of the safest gold mining operations in the world.OGPI received numerous awards such as two Presidential Awards as the most …

OceanaGold Corporation announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, OceanaGold Philippines, Inc. ("OGPI"), has filed a registration statement and draft preliminary prospectus with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission and a listing application with The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. in relation to the proposed …

Didipio is a major direct and indirect employer in the provinces of Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya and a significant contributor of socio-economic benefits for the local and national economies. The Didipio Gold and Copper Mine operates to the highest environmental and social standards and has been recognised as one of the most …

Didipio, which began production in 2013 and is located 270 km north of Manila, has a measured and indicated resource of 1.3 million ounces of gold and 160,000 tonnes of copper.

In 2019, when OceanaGold's permit expired and the company continued operating at Didipio, Twali-Ifugao Indigenous activists set up a barricade to stop the delivery of fuel and other supplies to the mine. Abao's film, shot over five years, shows nearby communities' growing frustration with the mine, and the decision to ultimately …

The company aims to achieve full underground production capacity within twelve months. Once fully ramped-up, the company expects Didipio to produce approximately 10,000 …

Didipio's original Bugkalot Indigenous residents hunted and gathered in the densely forested mountains; now they collectively manage their forest resources in a sustainable way. Pure and abundant water …

The OGPI Didipio mining operations is a combination of open-pit and underground mining to maximize the operating life and financial performance of the project. The open pit …

The Company expects Didipio gold sales for 2021 to range between 23,000 and 28,000 ounces of gold and between 3,500 and 4,500 tonnes of copper. Didipio All-In Sustaining Costs are expected to range between $300 and $400 per ounce sold with cash costs of $200 to $300 per ounce sold. At full operations, the Didipio mine is expected to …

The 27,000-hectare (66,700-acre) Didipio mine straddles the border between the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino, some 270 kilometers (170 miles) northeast of Manila. It's believed to hold ...

Didipio, which began production in 2013 and is located 270 km north of Manila, has a measured and indicated resource of 1.3 million ounces of gold and 160,000 tonnes of copper.

Aggressive mining development in the Philippines: the Didipio Gold and Copper mine, owned by OceanaGold Corporation, has caused large human rights violations and …

OGPI has filed a registration statement and draft preliminary prospectus with the SEC for the Offering of 20% of OGPI's common shares, with the Offering expected to be completed prior to July 2024.OGPI holds the Company's interest in the Didipio Mine and, pursuant to the terms of the renewed FTAA, is required to list at least 10% of its …

Didipio Gold –Copper Mining Project is operated by Oceana Gold Philippines Inc. (OGPI), a significant gold,producer in the Asia Pacific region. Didipio project is located in the north of Luzon Island …

Typhoon Ulysses exposed the ill effects of large-scale mining in Nueva Vizcaya, with fatal mudslides in Quezon town and a TSF overflow isolating Didipio village from the rest of Kasibu town. Despite being cleared of blame by the government, mining concessions FCF Minerals and OceanaGold are being held accountable by Novo …

Dinkidi is hosted by the Didipio intrusive complex, which intruded calc-alkalic to shoshonitic volcanic rocks of the Mamparang and Upper Mamparang formations in the late Oligocene. An early, composite diorite-monzodiorite pluton was intruded by the Surong monzonite and the Dinkidi stock. The initial phases of the Cu-Au mineralized Dinkidi …

Photo credit: OceanaGold Scott Sullivan, Chief Operating Officer and Acting Chief Executive Officer of OceanaGold said, "The recommencement of Didipio operations is progressing ahead of plan. The recruitment of the workforce is ahead of schedule as we expect approximately 65% of the total workforce to be in place by the end of the third …

– Caesar Marino, Didipio elder For nearly two decades, the Indigenous community of Didipio in the Philippines has been fighting to stop a gold and copper mine that threatens their environment, farmlands, and families. The mining company and government have responded with violence and intimidation and ignored the people's …

MANILA — Tribal leader Celia Bahag no longer remembers what Mount Dinkidi looked like before the wave of mining activities washed over her barangay, or village, of Didipio in the Philippine ...

The Didipio Mine near the border of Nueva Vizcaya and quirino provinces commenced in June 2011 while open pit mining started in July 2012. The mine shifted to undergroun­d mining in 2015. Benchmark. Marjorie Wong-Idio, Didipio Mine external affairs and communicat­ions manager, said the systems and programs maintained by the …

The Nueva Vizcaya government initiated a blockade around the Didipio mine in 2019 to prevent OceanaGold operating the site without a license, disrupting maintenance work and sparking a still unresolved court battle. Environmental group Kalikasan condemned the permit renewal and vowed to continue the blockade.

The Didipio Mine is operated by the Company under a Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement ("FTAA") with the Government, which grants the Company title, exploration and mining rights within a fixed fiscal regime. The FTAA was executed in 1994, and was renewed on July 14, 2021 for an additional 25-year period commencing on June 19, 2019

The construction of the Didipio Mine started in 2008, with early works including road access. Construction of major infrastructure commenced in 2011, and commercial production of the Didipio Mine was declared on April 1, 2013. The open pit mine was completed to final design in May 2017 after five years of mining.

The Didipio mine, in the northern Philippines province of Nueva Vizcaya, is one of those which national campaigners have urged the new Environment Secretary to close down for several reasons (see: OceanaGold not welcome in Philippines). In a recent on-the-spot investigation, UK-based Nostromo Research heard strong evidence from local people …

Didipio Year-End 2023 Mineral Reserves and Resources . The Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves estimates at December 31, 2023 at Didipio are presented in Table 1 below. The year-over-year 0.08 ...

Scholarship Opportunity Alert! The Didipio Mine's Community Development Fund (CDF) Scholarship Program, in partnership with the Philippine Councilors League of Provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino...

The Didipio project is a high grade gold-copper mine development, located approximately 270km north-east of Manila in the Philippines. Owned by OceanaGold, the mine is …

OceanaGold's Didipio gold-copper project straddles a mountainous region between Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino provinces about 270 km north of Manila. With the Didipio gold-copper mine in northern Luzon operating above initial nameplate capacity and ramp-up continuing, OceanaGold is not resting on its laurels and is now debottlenecking the process ...

With a semitemperate weather, Didipio was an ideal place for rice and vegetable agriculture because of the abundance of water coming from numerous springs and creeks from the forest, Ananayo says.