SunStar Toledo City Government relocates families living near mining pit’s collapsed area
STILL SEARCHING. Emergency responders led by the Philippine Coast Guard conduct on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, search and retrieval operations in the collapsed portion of Carmen Pit, an open mining pit of Carmen Copper Corp., to retrieve the six miners who remain missing after a landslide hit the pit on Dec. 21. / TOLEDO CITY PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
+ December 29, 2020 THE Toledo City Government in southwestern Cebu has evacuated 400 families, composed of 2,000 individuals, living near the collapsed portion of an open mining pit owned by Carmen Copper Corp.
John Roseller Layan, Toledo City public information officer, said the evacuation of the families living in Barangay Biga began on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020.
SunStar Biga chief claims pleas ignored before landslide
SIGNS IGNORED? Residents of Barangay Biga, Toledo City claim they warned officials of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau Central Visayas and Carmen Copper Corp. of large cracks in the village prior to the landslide. (Alan Tangcawan)
+ December 30, 2020 BARELY a month before a deadly landslide hit a mining pit in Barangay Biga, Toledo City last Dec. 21, 2020, residents sought the help of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) to temporarily halt the mining operations of Carmen Copper Corp. (CCC) after large cracks were discovered in their village.
But the appeal reportedly fell on deaf ears.
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SunStar Toledo City Government relocates families living near mining pit’s collapsed area
STILL SEARCHING. Emergency responders led by the Philippine Coast Guard conduct on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, search and retrieval operations in the collapsed portion of Carmen Pit, an open mining pit of Carmen Copper Corp., to retrieve the six miners who remain missing after a landslide hit the pit on Dec. 21. / TOLEDO CITY PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
+ December 29, 2020 THE Toledo City Government in southwestern Cebu has evacuated 400 families, composed of 2,000 individuals, living near the collapsed portion of an open mining pit owned by Carmen Copper Corp.
John Roseller Layan, Toledo City public information officer, said the evacuation of the families living in Barangay Biga began on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020.
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+ December 29, 2020 SEARCH and retrieval operations in Carmen Copper Corp.’s (CCC) Biga pit continue after some 480-meter bench collapsed into a watery portion at its foot some four days before Christmas.
Earlier on, engineers at the site had been closely monitoring the cracks in the vicinity, and reports said that on Dec. 21, the day of the big slide, that portion of the pit was already a restricted area. Despite the warning, some workers were still in the area as shown in a video that is now circulating on social media. The pit’s early warning device had detected ground movement and sounded off its alarm. A little past 3 p.m., workers were already told to leave the area, but must have felt no urgency as landslides in varying scales were commonplace. The big surprise was the enormity of earth that fell, the impact of which was made worse by the pool of accumulated water at the foot, throwing a big splash of mu