San Manuel Mine was once the world’s largest underground copper mining operation in size of ore body, production capacity and infrastructure. It is located in the Old Hat mining district on the ...

The ore body, controlled now by the San Manuel Copper Corp., was discovered in 1870, but the ore was too low grade to be mined profitably with the processes and price of copper at that time.

One is the San Roque West segment, which straddles Barangays San Roque and San Manuel in Pangasinan and Barangay Ampucao in Itogon, Benguet. It has a total project area of 112.94 hectares.

A name has power, San Bernardino tribal members say. The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, whose federally recognized reservation overlooks Highland and San Bernardino, has formally changed its ...