Canatuan mine

The Canatuan mine was a gold/silver, copper/zinc open-pit mine located in the province of Zamboanga del Norte on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines. The mine was operated from 2004 to January 2014 by TVI Resource Development (Phils) Inc., a former subsidiary of Canadian-based TVI Pacific Inc. From 2010 to the end of operations in 2014, the Canatuan operations received multiple awards at the annual Philippine Presidential Mineral Industry Environmental Awards ceremony for its commitment to safe and responsible mining. Top accolades received between 2010 and 2013 include the Presidential Mineral Industry Environmental Award – Platinum Award (2012); Titanium Award for Excellence in Environmental Management (2011); Platinum Achievement Award - Surface Mining Category (2010), Titanium Award for Excellence in Environmental Management; and Titanium Award – Surface Mining Category (2013).

Throughout the time that TVIRD operated the Canatuan mine, the company made certain that the town of Siocon benefited from increased economic activity and lasting development by building homes, bridges, hospitals and a 140-kilometer network of roads that linked Siocon to the rest of the Zamboanga Peninsula. The once land-locked town was elevated from a fourth-class municipality to first-class status. Today, the host community and the indigenous Subanons of Canatuan are living testament to the contributions made by TVIRD.

At the height of its operations, the Company ran social responsibility programs which included the construction and funding of a health and sanitation clinic that provided free 24/7 healthcare, ambulance service and health & wellness programs and the roll out of an education program that helped construct 10 local schools, with close to 4,000 students, and provided teachers, learning tools, equipment and funded 48 college scholarships.

Even today, after TVIRD’s Canatuan mine site has entered into the rehabilitation phase, jobs are still being created through the emergence of a local agro-forestry industry. Through the agro-forestry work of its rehabilitation programs, TVIRD has planted over 416,000 trees in and around Canatuan – five times more than the number of trees at the site prior to its operations. All of this was done for the overall sustainability of the host community

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