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Saved PICOP RESOURCES, INC.,petitioner, - versus BASE METALS MINERAL

RESOURCES ADJUDICATION BOARD, respondents. CORPORATION @nd T!E
MINES

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Banahaw Mining filed applications for Mining Lease Contracts over the mining claims
with the Bureau of Mines to extract and dispose of precious minerals found within its
mining claims. Since a portion of Banahaw Mining‟s mining claims was located in
Books petitioner PICOP‟s logging concession in @gusan del Sur! Banahaw Mining and
petitioner PICOP entered into a Memorandum of @greement! where"#! petitioner PICOP
allowed Banahaw Mining an access$right of wa# to its mining claims. Banahaw Mining
converted its mining claims to applications for Mineral Production Sharing @greements
Audiobooks %MPS@&. 'hile the MPS@ were pending! Banahaw Mining! decided to sell$assign its
rights and interests in favor of private respondent Base Metals Mineral (esources
Corporation %Base Metals. Base Metals amended Banahaw Mining‟s pending MPS@
applications with the Bureau of Mines to su"stitute itself as applicant. petitioner PICOP
Magazines filed with the Mines )eo*Sciences Bureau %M)B&! an @dverse Claim and$or Opposition
to Base Metals‟ application asserts that its concession areas are closed to mining
operations as these are within the @gusan*Surigao*+avao forest reserve esta"lished under
Proclamation ,o. -N/ of then )ov. )en. +wight +avis. 0he area is allegedl# also part of
Documents permanent forest esta"lished under (epu"lic @ct ,o. -1/2 %(@ -1/2&! and overlaps the
wilderness area where mining applications are expressl# prohi"ited under (@ 345N.
6ence! the area is closed to mining operations under Sec. 7/%f& of (@ 3/82.

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'hether or not the area covered "# Base Metals‟ MPS@ is closed to mining activities

!ELD#

PICOP failed to present an# evidence that the area covered "# the MPS@ is a protected
wilderness area designated as an initial component of the ,IP@S pursuant to a law!
presidential decree! presidential proclamation or executive order as re:uired "# (@ 345N.
@lthough the a"ove*cited area status and clearances! particularl# those pertaining to
MPS@ ,os. 172 and 17-! state that portions thereof are within the wilderness area of
PICOP! there is no showing that this supposed wilderness area has "een proclaimed!
designated or set aside as such! pursuant to a law! presidential decree! presidential
proclamation or executive order. It should "e emphasi;ed that it is onl# when this area
has "een so designated that Sec. 21 of (@ 345N! which prohi"its mineral locating within
protected areas! "ecomes operational. <rom the foregoing! there is clearl# no merit to
PICOP=s contention that the area covered "# Base Metals= MPS@ is! "# law! closed to
mining activities.

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