The Philippines is believed by some historians to be the island of Chryse, the "Golden One," which is the name given by ancient Greek writers in reference to an island rich in gold east of India. Pomponius Mela, Marinos of Tyre and the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea mentioned this island in 100 BC, and it is basically the equivalent to the Indian Suvarnadvipa, the "Island of Gold." Josephus calls it in Latin Aurea, and equates the island with biblical Ophir, from where the ships of Tyre and Solomon brought back gold and other trade items. The Visayan Islands, particularly Cebu had earlier encounter with the Greek traders in 21 AD.[11]

Ptolemy locates the islands of Chryse east of the Khruses Kersonenson, the "Golden Peninsula," i.e. the Malaya Peninsula. North of Chryse in the Periplus was Thin, which some consider the first European reference to China. Scholars however know that Thin or Gin as in Gintu - Suvarnadvipa originates from Chinese word for gold "jin") Chinese have traded with and settled in Philippines thousands of years before West even knew of this area. In about the 200 BC, there arose a practice of using gold eye covers, and then, gold facial orifice covers to adorn the dead resulting in an increase of ancient gold finds.[12] During the Qin dynasty and the Tang dynasty, China was well aware of the golden lands far to the south. The Buddhist pilgrim I-Tsing mentions Chin-Chou, "Isle of Gold" in the archipelago south of China on his way back from India. Medieval Muslims refer to the islands as the Kingdoms of Zabag and Wakwak as rich in gold, referring to the eastern islands of the Malay archipelago, the location of present-day Philippines and Eastern Indonesia.[12][13]

More than a millennium later, the popularity of dental gold to decorate the teeth significantly increased the amount of gold found at archaeological sites. When the Spanish came they discovered an abundance of gold used among the people of the Philippine islands. The Portuguese explorer Pedro Fidalgo in 1545 found gold so abundant on Luzon the inhabitants were willing to trade two pezoes of gold for one pezo of silver. When the Portuguese first arrived, most of the gold traded into Brunei came from Luzon. That island was known as Lusung Dao or "Luzon Island" to the Chinese who also traded for gold in this region.[12]

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i once picked an old 60s/70s encyclopedia ... & philippines was in the top 10 countries in gold production...
well this one is from the 80s


& from the 90s



today, the Philippines still has more Gold Reserves than any other SEAsian country

Have you guys seen Gintong Pamana?

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We may have been producing a lot back then but we sure didn't get to keep most of it.

In 1907, Benguet Mine - the first modern gold mine in the country - was established. Subsequently, 17 other adjacent gold mines were opened at the Baguio district. The peak of U.S. colonial rule in the Philippines in the 1930's was considered as the boom years of the Philippine large-scale mining industry, especially in gold mining. In 1936, the country 's third mining law was enacted (Commonwealth Act No. 137) and the Bureau of Mines was also created. By and large, there were 40 operating gold mines producing 30 tons per year up to the outbreak of World War II. In the country's export trade, gold was the third most important commodity, exceeded only by sugar and coconut respectively.

Commonwealth Act No. 137 : Section 110. During the Commonwealth of the Philippines, citizens of the United States or corporations organized and constituted under the laws of the United States or of any state or territory thereof, and authorized to transact business in the Philippines, shall enjoy the same rights under this Act as citizens or corporations of the Philippines.

As a colony of America, that act effectively allowed Americans to partake of the Philippines mineral resources as if it were their own, despite being granted "independence" later and being a loyal ally during WW2, the United States later withheld badly needed war reparations from the Philippines until the Bell Trade Act was passed in their favor from 1946-1955. Which among other things allowed Americans the same privileges to help themselves to our natural resources as when we were still their colony. The act was later continued in the form of the Laurel–Langley Agreement from 1955-1974.

As the Laurel-Langley Agreement and similar colonial relics were about to end in 1974, Marcos made a grab at the at the U.S. controlled big mining industry. The decade 1980-1990, towards the end of martial law (1982) and the fall of Marcos (1986), triggered the painful dying process of large-scale metallic ore mining that was marked by a domino type of shutdown of 14 big and medium-sized metal mines.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) admitted that since 2002, there are only eight operating large metal mines.

http://www.prrm.org/publications/gmo2/historical.htm

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