Sand Being Hauled Aways from the Cagayan Beaches in the Philippines, Shipped off to China

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Photo courtesy of: “Sand Wars” Filmmaker: © Denis Delestrac

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At least 2.5 million metric tons of the country’s magnetite were shipped to China from almost five years of controversy-ridden blacksand mining operations in the province of Cagayan, government records showed.

The volume comprised a total of about 331 shipments that got out of Port Irene, the main port of the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport in Santa Ana town…

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