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Only MINERO can.

That's why we have to vote MINERO as our party list.

MINERO believes

• That people and the environment are created by God and should therefore be protected, developed and enriched

• That miners have the right to life and a fair livelihood

• That the Filipino people have the primary right to the nation's wealth and natural resources

• That miners should not only protect the environment but respond to environmental and man-made disasters to save people's lives
• July 1990: Baguio City: earthquake: MINERO saves Hyatt Terraces guests trapped inside fallen building

• December 2003: San Francisco, Southern Leyte: flood & massive soil erosion: MINERO to the rescue

• November 2004: Real, Infanta at Nakar sa Quezon: Typhoon Wanie: child, grandmother and two teenage boys, buried in mud inside fallen building, saved

• February 2005: Ginsaugon, Southern Leyte: a foreign rescuer saved from collapsed building

• December 2005: Albay: Typhoon Reming: towns of Busang, Daraga, Guinobatan and Legaspi City buried in mud: 104 miners from MINERO find 83 dead and save 6 buried alive; in Daraga, one month's supply of water is provided to stave of thirst with water supply cut off
MINERO is 104 years old!

Modern mining began in Benguet in 1903.

In 1938, the Baguio Mine Operations Safety Association or BMOSA was established. Eight major mines in the Baguio Mining District started it. This later became the Philippine Mining Safety and Environment Association, or PMSEA, the basis of MINERO.

The main aim of BMOSA and PMSEA: to ensure the SAFETY and WELFARE of MINERS.
Vision
Ernie Rodriguez: MINERO Vision

We have a vision for the Philippines.

Just imagine for a moment a Philippines that is so rich, it is debt-free. A Philippines where the Filipinos are proud to be called Filipinos. A Philippines whose passport can go anywhere without a visa. A Philippines which can be a lending country—in our lifetime. A Philippines that is so economically rich that we can give many opportunities to our people. A Philippines so blessed, it is a blessing to other countries.

With MNERO, these are possible. All of these things are possible within our lifetime.

As you know, our country is rich in mineral resources. We have 30 million hectares of land, and one-third of that is highly mineralized. One-third means 10 million hectares. Of those 10 million hectares, only 1.5 percent has been explored. Even so, the 1.5 percent that has been explored is already equivalent to one trillion dollars—more than enough to pay our foreign debt and become a lending country in our lifetime.

This does not count our mineral wealth in 2.2 million square kilometers of offshore waters, among which are not only the common minerals that we know but also oil and unlimited quantities of the "fuel of the future," deuterium.

The Philippines is known to be the third in the world in terms of gold deposits. We are number 5 in nickel, number 6 in chromite, and number 10 in copper. Not to mention platinum and other minerals on top of what was just mentioned.

So we have the capability to be a rich country.

But the irony is that we are a rich nation with poor people. We are a rich nation where our people are hungry. One out of five Filipinos goes hungry. That's about 20 percent of our population. We have the second highest malnutrition rate in the world—second only to Africa. And we're also a country in debt. Half of our billion-peso budget goes to debt servicing.

In Deuteronomy 8:7-11, God gives Israel a land rich in biodiversity, where stones are made of iron and we may dig copper, so that there will always be food on the table. And when there is food on the table, we can fulfill the reason why we were created—to always praise and worship the Lord. So all of these things are given by the Lord for our own use—to mine the minerals so that we may have food on our table.

But again, we have to do this responsibly—we cannot just mine and mine without taking care of the environment. First and foremost, we should take care of the environment so that we can get the mineral wealth. As stated in Haggai 2:8, "The gold is mine, thus declares the Lord."

So all of these things belong to the Lord. Our job is to be good stewards of what belong to the Lord. The Lord told us to take dominion; so if we are to take dominion, we have to be good stewards of the mineral wealth that belongs to the Lord.

It's a very exciting thing to know that our country can transform itself in our lifetime to be a blessing to its people.

Once again we would like to ask you to be our partners in this movement to transform the nation into a blessed country so that we can be a blessing to other peoples and to the whole world.

Vote MINERO as your Party List on May 14!

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