Small-Scale Mining Regulations

<p>Finding a balance between economic development and environmental sustainability</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To protect the natural resources and strive for the common good</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Advocate for alternative approaches that minimize environmental harm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To be aware of the safety and welfare of the people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acts or omissions that are prejudicial to public interest and the welfare of the people</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Only gold, silver, and chromite are allowed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of mercury</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide technical assistance to small-scale mining cooperatives and associations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To recognize, protect and promote the rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To guarantee the full measure of human rights and freedoms without distinction or discrimination</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Applicability of customary laws governing property rights or relations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Within the framework of national unity and development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The mining operation may release harmful pollutants into the air and water sources, posing significant risks to the residents' well-being.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To faithfully use their knowledge and skills in performing their tasks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Try to resolve the conflict in accordance with the law, public policy, and the provisions of the Code of Ethics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To fulfill their responsibility to the community's safety and welfare by raising concerns and advocating for necessary precautions and mitigation measures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To bring economic development and job opportunities to the area.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To advance or promote their client's interest only if it aligns with the law, public policy, and professional obligations and ethics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sever their professional engagement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide guidelines for Mining Engineers to fulfill their responsibilities to their employer, client, and the community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To regulate the importation, manufacture, and use of chemical substances and mixtures</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conservation and protection of wildlife resources and their habitats</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To monitor and regulate the use of chemical substances and mixtures</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To protect human health and the environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To keep track of existing and possible uses of chemicals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The entry, even in transit, of hazardous and nuclear wastes into the country</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To prevent the hazards and risks attendant to the manufacture, handling, storage, transportation, processing, distribution, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals and other substances and mixtures</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regulation of chemical substances and mixtures</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure the conservation of protected areas in the country</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lands covered by RA No. 6657, including plantations and areas devoted to valuable crops</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To identify areas for tourism development</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure that environmental standards in mining are fully and strictly enforced</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Appropriate sanctions being meted out</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Only those who are able to strictly comply with all the pertinent requirements</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To halt all mining contracts, agreements, and concessions approved before its effectivity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure that environmental standards in mining are fully and strictly enforced</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both a and b</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Three years</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Registration as a mining engineer</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The President</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To give a Board member an opportunity to defend themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When their successor is appointed and qualified</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both practicing and offering to practice mining engineering</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Not specified in the law</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure compliance with environmental standards and laws</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They will be put on hold until new legislation is passed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Appropriate action will be taken against violators</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To issue new exploration permits under existing laws and guidelines</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To develop and utilize the minerals in their respective exploration area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure compliance with environmental standards and laws</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The grantees will have the right of first option to develop and utilize the minerals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure compliance with environmental standards and laws</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Those who descend from populations that inhabited the country at the time of conquest or colonization</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The consensus of all members of the ICCs/IPs, free from external manipulation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Full disclosure of the activity's intent and scope</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1% of the gross output</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To support the socioeconomic wellbeing of the ICCs/IPs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The identification of organizational and cultural leadership systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To recognize and promote the rights of ICCs/IPs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Yes, minerals can be part of ancestral domains</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The moratorium on mineral agreements under Section 4, EO No. 79</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To maximize government revenues and share from production</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To renegotiate the terms and conditions of existing contracts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To undertake measures to rationalize existing revenue-sharing schemes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The right of first option to develop and utilize the minerals in their respective exploration area upon approval of the declaration of mining project feasibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To obtain appropriate royalties</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The entry into new mineral agreements</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To grant and issue Exploration Permits under existing laws, rules, and guidelines</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The right to full ownership and control</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mining Engineering Law of the Philippines</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Being a registered and legally qualified mining engineer</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Oral traditions, literature, designs, and visual and performing arts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To regulate the practice of mining engineering</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The right to full ownership and control</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Through a mixture of traditional and scientific methods</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To regulate the practice of mining engineering</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To maintain allegiance to the Republic of the Philippines and support the Constitution</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The State</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dignity and honor of the profession</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To protect, conserve, develop, and utilize them for the benefit of the present and future generations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To work for the interest of the government and not employ their position for profit</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To prepare necessary competitive bid packages</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The common good and contribute their expertise for the success of national projects or policies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They automatically belong to the State</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To maintain a high degree of knowledge, efficiency, responsibility, and morality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Competitive bidding</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To guide mining engineers in their profession</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure State ownership of valuable metals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A certificate of registration</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When all mining contracts expire</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>21 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Near or under public or private buildings, cemeteries, archeological and historic sites, bridges, highways, waterways, railroads, reservoirs, dams or other infrastructure projects</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It lifts the moratorium on mineral agreements</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prior written consent of the small-scale miners</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To maximize government revenues and share from production</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Twice a year</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>40%</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Old growth or virgin forests</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They will be reviewed for possible renegotiation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>For the socioeconomic development of the community concerned</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vocational course</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To develop and utilize the minerals in their respective exploration area</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>RA 7942</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>5 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To obtain appropriate royalties</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To evaluate the knowledge of mining engineering and economics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Environmental protection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Appropriate measures with the Department of Finance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It allows the grant of new mineral agreements subject to compliance with existing laws</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Anyone who has completed a mining and/or quarry course of instruction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>EO 79 of 2012</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To list areas closed to mining operations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To grant and issue Exploration Permits</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mining engineering and economics, mining laws and ethics, metallurgy, ore dressing and assaying, geology and surveying, and applied mathematics</p> Signup and view all the answers