Group prods admin to back offshore mining

By Rio N. Araja

A GROUP of investors on Sunday called on the government to support offshore mining in Philippine seabeds for the industry to flourish, aside from fishing.

At a media briefing in Quezon City, Dr. Michael Raymond Aragon, Offshore Mining Chamber of the Philippines Inc. chairperson, said offshore mining is a new and high technology “to cleanly mine for raw minerals in the deep seabeds of our country.”

However, he lamented that the Philippines does not have the high technology and lacks the money, and that there is a need for foreign resources to do this locally.

Offshore mining is entirely different, and much cleaner and greener mining process against the land-based mining, Aragon noted.