Mining and Mineral Processing

Apex Mining Co., Inc. Apex Mining Co., Inc. was incorporated in 1970 primarily to carry on the business of mining, milling, concentrating, converting, smelting, treating, preparing for market, manufacturing, buying, selling, exchanging and otherwise producing and dealing in gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc brass, iron, steel and all kinds of ores, metals and minerals. The company’s headquarter is in Pasig City, Manila. The company's mining operations are situated in the municipalities of Maco and Mabini in Compostela Valley, where the area has epithermal gold deposits and porphyry copper deposits. The company's mine produces bullion containing gold and silver. The company also holds interests in Monte Oro Resources & Energy, Inc. (MORE), which owns Paracale Gold Ltd. that owns Coral Resources Philippines Inc., which in turn owns a mineral processing plant in Jose Panganiban, in Camarines Norte, and Bulawan Mineral Resources Corporation. Apex Mining also owns four patented mineral claims, through its subsidiary, Itogon and Suyoc Mines, covering the Sangilo and Suyoc Mines in Benguet. The company also has interests in gold mines overseas, such as in Mongolia, Uganda and Myanmar, through its subsidiary, Monte Oro Resources and Energy. [186]

Taganito HPAL Nickel Corporation Taganito HPAL Nickel Corporation (THPAL) was incorporated in 2008 to engage mainly in the manufacture and export of nickel and cobalt mixed sulfide. THPAL is a sister company of Coral Bay Nickel Corporation (CBNC), the first company in the world to successfully employ the highly efficient High Pressure Acid Leaching (HPAL) technology to turn low-grade nickel oxide ore, which was once considered as waste, into a manufactured intermediate product of high commercial value. THPAL, located in Mindanao, is a subsidiary of Sumimoto Metal Mining Co. that produces mixed nickel-cobalt sulfides (MS) using HPAL technology and exports the raw materials to the SMM Group's nickel refining facilities at Niihama Nickel Refinery and Harima Refinery in Japan. THPAL also started recovery of scandium in 2018, and recovery of chromite in 2021. [187]

Philex Mining Corp. Philex Mining Corporation (PMC) is one of the oldest and largest mining companies in the country and was incorporated in 1955. The two subsidiaries of PMC, Philex Gold Philippines, Inc. (PGPI) and Silangan Mindanao Mining Co., Inc. (SMMCI), are primarily engaged in large-scale exploration, development and utilization of mineral resources. PMC has been operating Padcal Mine in Benguet since 1958 producing copper, gold and silver concentrates. Philex also owns Bulawn Mine in Negros Occidental through its subsidiary, PGPI, which has ounces of gold. SMECI, through SMMCI, owns the Silangan Project covering the Boyongan and Bayugo deposits in Surigao. Adjacent to the Silangan Project is the Kalayaan Project, the exploration of which is being undertaken by Philex by virtue of a Farm-in Agreement with Kalayaan Gold & Copper Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of Manila Mining Corporation. [188]

Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation is an integrated resource company with significant and focused interests in mining copper, nickel, mineral exploration and water source development. It was incorporated as Masbate Consolidated Mining Company, Inc. in 1935 as a result of the merger of assets and equities of three pre-war mining companies, namely, Masbate Consolidated Mining Company Inc., Antamok Goldfields Mining Company, and IXL Mining Company. Thereafter, Atlas Mining amended its articles of incorporation to reflect the present corporate name. Its major project is the Toledo copper mine in Cebu province which is operated by its wholly-owned subsidiary Carmen Copper Corporation. The Toledo copper mine commenced production in 1955 and grew to become the third largest copper producer in the world and one of the Philippines' largest copper mines, thus making Carmen Copper a principal producer and exporter of copper concentrate in the country. To optimize its operations, and in line with the expansion of its beneficiation plant, Carmen Copper is pursuing the development and commercial distribution of marketable by-products from its copper concentrate processing such as molybdenum, magnetite, and pyrite. Atlas Mining also has a stake in the nickel laterite mining project of Berong Nickel Corporation in Palawan. Berong Nickel has been engaged in the direct shipping of nickel laterite ore since 2007. [189]