MacroAsia Corporation has obtained a key government permit that brought the firm a step closer to reviving a nickel mine in Southern Palawan. The Department of Environment & Natural Resources has released its Environmental Compliance Certificate for the Infanta nickel project, but the company still needs a declaration of mining feasibility before it can start operating the Infanta mine. The mine site is 1114 hectares and is estimated to have 88.36 million dry mt of mineral resources. The company said it hopes to acquire the declaration within the year. The Infanta nickel project is the company’s tenement under a mineral production sharing agreement with the government. In the 1970’s, MacroAsia, then known as Infanta Mineral and Industrial Corporation, operated the mine as an export producer of beneficiated nickel laterite.
