Mines and mining
In cases where a claim owner or lessee is involved in a mining dispute, it shall just submit a “Letter of Intent to file the necessary Mineral Agreement application”; the actual mineral agreement application, however, should only be filed within thirty (30) days from the final resolution of the dispute of the case. (Asiga Mining Corp. vs. Mla. Mining Corp., G.R. No. 199081, Jan. 24, 2018)
“Proof of actual work obligations”; the failure to perform actual work obligations that would give rise to abandonment; there is no “automatic abandonment” on the basis of the non-submission of the AAWO alone; if the claim owners or lessees did indeed fail to perform their obligations as required in Sec. 27 of the Mineral Resources Development Decree of 1974, as amended, then the cancellation of their mining claims could only be considered proper upon observance of due process. (Asiga Mining Corp. vs. Mla. Mining Corp., G.R. No. 199081, Jan. 24, 2018)
“Proof of actual work obligations”; the failure to perform actual work obligations that would give rise to abandonment; there is no “automatic abandonment” on the basis of the non-submission of the AAWO alone; if the claim owners or lessees did indeed fail to perform their obligations as required in Sec. 27 of the Mineral Resources Development Decree of 1974, as amended, then the cancellation of their mining claims could only be considered proper upon observance of due process. (Asiga Mining Corp. vs. Mla. Mining Corp., G.R. No. 199081, Jan. 24, 2018)