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Palawan nickel mine an ecological timebomb

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | December 1, 2003 - 12:00am

For a quarter of a decade farmers in the southern Palawan town of Bataraza have had to put up with nickel mining in their limestone hills. The soil around Mount Gotok has turned dark and dry from siltation and iron...

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