Mining Philippines export, average, area, sector
Philippines Mining. The Philippines also produced sizable quantities of metallurgic chromite, from western Luzon; chromite ore production totaled 20,900 tons (gross weight), down from 53,871 in 1998, 87,500 in 1997, and 107,068 in 1996, although Benguet Corp.'s Masinloc opencut mine had a capacity of 105,000 tons per year.