http://www.tribune.net.ph/business/20060912bus10.html
09/12/2006

Australia’s Lafayette Mining has been forced to halt operations at its Rapu-Rapu island mine after a temporary operating permit expired, regulators said yesterday.

Government regulators shut down the mine last October after two tailing spills but the company won provisional approval for a 60-day trial run in June under which it would have to prove that safety measures had been put in place to prevent similar accidents.

“The results of the first 30 days of the test run are still being studied by the Pollution Adjudication Board,” Joy Grate, an aide to Mines and Geosciences Bureau chief Horacio Ramos, told AFP.

Grate would not give a timetable on when the board would issue its ruling.
Lafayette Philippines officials were unavailable for comment.
Earlier Monday in Sydney, Lafayette said the Rapu-Rapu operations were stopped on Friday. AFP