Small-scale mining is widespread in Paracale and in Jose Panganiban and Labo towns. Gold-panning, which uses toxic mercury in extracting gold, is also prevalent in Camarines Norte.

PARACALE, Camarines Norte: The old parola in Camarines Norte is being gradually engulfed by the sea and numerous houses within the mouth of Paracale River and near the shoreline are inundated by sea ...

For some residents, Paracale is like Endora in Johnny Depp’s movie “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” It is a place where people are busy, yet nothing much happens.

Al Cababay, a native of Paracale, said the gold comes from the river that flows from the mountains to the sea. Strong waves wash the gold particles on the shore during the monsoon season. Mining in ...

Ten months after a similar accident in the area that killed two people, parts of a mine in the Camarines Norte town of Paracale—where gold is the main source of livelihood of small-scale ...

It is highly possible that the 11 Chinese nationals who were arrested in Paracale, Camarines Norte were attempting to mine uranium, an official of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission ...

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PAOCC is looking into a local politician who is allegedly the business partner of the11 Chinese nationals working in an illegal mine in Paracale.

In the village of Maning, in Paracale, Camarines Norte, a network of pits and tunnels snake their way under a mountain, where thousands of people go everyday to search for gold. The area has ...

CAMARINES NORTE, Philippines — “Eighty percent of the residents of Paracale have false teeth,” says Al Cababay, the lone denture maker in this gold mining town, and himself a denture-wearer.

Elements of the Police Anti-Crime and Emergency Response (PACER) in the Visayas collared a key member of the "Paracale gang," who has long been wanted for a rash of robberies in the late 1980s and ...

PARACALE, PHILIPPINES — Gold mining has long been a risky business, with prospectors gambling with their lives in search of riches. In the Philippines, the government hopes to reduce the risk ...