Mount Pinukis is an inactive
volcano
A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most oft ...
in Brgy. Lison Valley,
Pagadian City
Pagadian, officially the City of Pagadian, is a component city and the capital of the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. It is the regional center of Zamboanga Peninsula and the second-largest city in the region and in the province, a ...
, Philippines. It is the highest peak of
Zamboanga del Sur
Zamboanga del Sur ( Cebuano: ''Habagatang Zamboanga;'' Subanen: ''S'helatan Sembwangan/Sembwangan dapit Shelatan''; , Jawi: سلاتن سامبواڠن; ), officially the Province of Zamboanga del Sur, is a province in the Philippines located i ...
and the entire
Zamboanga Peninsula
Zamboanga Peninsula (; ; ) is an administrative region in Mindanao, Philippines, designated as Region IX. It consists of the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga Sibugay and Zamboanga del Sur, and the cities of Isabela and Zamboang ...
.
It covers more than , has up to 2015 retained a relatively
intact forest cover and is therefore included in the
Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs).
Pinukis, the sacred mountain of the
Subanen tribe, and a main source for the water system of the three provinces of the Zamboanga peninsula, is under threat from multinational
mining companies
This is an incomplete alphabetical list of mining industry, mining companies.
A
* Adex Mining
* Aditya Birla Group
* African Rainbow Minerals
* Agnico Eagle
* Aiteo
* Almonty Industries
* Alumina Limited, Alumina
* Anaconda Copper
* Anglo Americ ...
who wish to engage in
open-cast mining
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth.
Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or ro ...
.
See also
*
Midsalip
*
Pagadian City
Pagadian, officially the City of Pagadian, is a component city and the capital of the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. It is the regional center of Zamboanga Peninsula and the second-largest city in the region and in the province, a ...
External links
*https://www.slideshare.net/no2mininginpalawan/mt-pinukis-water-catchment
References
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Inactive volcanoes of the Philippines
Sacred mountains of the Philippines
Landforms of Zamboanga del Sur