For background on the Canatuan Issue, please read the the Aid/PIPLinks report on the Mining Industry in the Philippines. It contains a chapter which deals particulary with with the case of TVI Pacific in Canatuan, Siocon. Click here to read the report.

TVI was a junior partner with Echo Bay mines in the Kingking gold and copper mine project in Southern Mindanao. Read the Sierra Club report that describes how Echo Bay was funding Al-Qaeda linked terrorists.

DCMI has long been involved in Sibutad, Zamboanga del Norte where Philex Gold Philippines Incorporated operates. Read the Case Study published by the Philippine International Forum on this issue for more background. (1999)