in 2006 by Barrick Gold, who has joined the lawsuit. As of 2017, the provincial government had been preparing to file a new case against Placer Dome and Barrick Gold for environmental damage in the municipalities of Boac and Mogpog. In 2022, the Marinduque Regional Trial Court ordered Marcopper Mining Corporation to pay damages to more than 30 plaintiffs, ruling on a case filed in 2001 that the collapse of Marcopper's siltation dam on December 6, 1993, resulted in significant harm to properties and agriculture. The decision mandated Marcopper to compensate each of the plaintiffs with P200,000 for temperate damages and P100,000 for moral damages. The decision also required Marcopper to pay a total of P1 million as exemplary damages for all the plaintiffs. See also Marinduque Placer Dome Barrick Gold References 1996 mining disasters 1996 disasters in the Philippines Gold mining disasters History of Marinduque Mining disasters in the Philippines March 1996 events in Asia Man-made disasters in the Philippines Tailings dam failures