Most owners of the 20 operating mills in Barangay Fidelisan, Sagada, resist a government requirement for centralized processing of gold ore within the Minahang Bayan
Only two of 13 registered Minahang Bayan in the Cordillera Administrative Region have small-scale mining contracts with the government, and MGB-CAR regional director Fay Apil admits the 'technical and costly process'