House''s proposal to ban openpit mines contradicts
26/09/2018#0183;#32;The country''s mining law currently allows openpit mining but former Mines and Geoscience Bureau (MGB) director Leo Jasareno said the law was actually quot;silent in terms of the methodquot;. Leones said that before imposing the ban on open pit, the agency quot;hopesquot; that there will be already available options for the mining sector to undertake operations without resorting to open pit.