ALCOY, Cebu, Philippines — It was during his fishing trips five years ago that Jeffrey Dueñas first noticed that some corals in waters about a kilometer away from a dolomite quarry site in ...

“I am just concerned about the damage it will cause to the terrestrial environment of Alcoy after extracting all those dolomite and to Manila Bay once it’s been filled up with crushed dolomite ...

“I have to stop the operation while an investigation is conducted to determine whether or not the two companies violated some rules,” said Cimatu, who visited the dolomite mine site at Alcoy ...

The dolomite extracted from Alcoy town in Southern Cebu which was processed and transported as “white sand” for the Manila Bay beautification project, was supposed to be for foreign export only.

DMC was the company which extracted dolomite from the southern town of Alcoy in Cebu Province. DMC sold the blocks of dolomite to PMSC. In turn, PMSC was the contractor which processed the ...

This, after the provincial government has reportedly confirmed that the dolomite used in the rehabilitation of Manila Bay came from Alcoy, produced by firms PMSC and its neighbor Dolomite Mining ...

The quarries in Alcoy, Cebu, from which the dolomite sand was sourced are massive operations that have long threatened the region’s terrestrial species. Cebu only has 1% of its original forest ...

Cimatu, expressed hopes that the issues raised by Cebu’s provincial government and Alcoy town will be addressed soon so as to finally lift the ban on dolomite mining that has been causing the ...

Of the hundreds of “beach nourishment” projects in the world, the Manila Bay project is the only one using dolomite, which is crushed into sand after being mined in Alcoy town in Cebu province. We ...