Carmen Copper Corp. commits assistance to victims of landslide in Toledo site

Carmen Copper Corporation (CCC) has committed to provide assistance to the victims of the landslide that hit its mining site in Toledo City, Cebu, which killed at least four people. Six others are still missing.

In a statement released Sunday, CCC said it has already provided various forms of financial and other assistance to the immediate family of the three deceased CCC employees, and has committed to provide free education and allowances to all their children until they graduate college.

It has also offered to provide employment opportunities for the next of kin, spouse, and children of the three employees, and the same commitments will be given to the immediate family of those missing.

CCC said it has also extended support to the family of the contractor of the project, but did not elaborate on the specifics.

The contractor, along with the three CCC employees, were the four fatalities reported during the landslide that hit the company's mine operation site last Monday afternoon, December 21, 2020, due to rains brought about by Typhoon Vicky.

"To aid Mining and Geosciences Bureau with their ongoing investigation and review, the company provides daily updates on the search operations and developments within the Carmen mine operating pit post the incident," CCC said.

"The LGU of Toledo has also been regularly informed and briefed on activities related to search operations," it added, with six other individuals missing.

CCC is an operating mine of Atlas Consolidated Mining Development Corp. (ACMDC) engaged in metallic mining and mineral exploration and development. It primarily produces and exports copper metal in concentrate, and gold and silver as the principal byproducts.

The company also pursues the development and commercial production of other marketable byproducts such as pyrite, magnetite, and molybdenum, and exports 100% of the copper it produces to smelters in China and South Korea. — Jon Viktor D. Cabuenas/BM, GMA News