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toxic metals from rocks resulting from the chemical reaction of the acid
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generating
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permeability to both air and rainfall and other water inflows when land is
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opened up for mining and initiates the chemical reaction, resulting to a
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perpetual machine of acid generation;
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minerals
in
rock
and
waste
materials
having
high
c) Ancestral domains - all areas generally belonging to indigenous cultural
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communities/indigenous peoples (ICCs/IPs)
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waters, coastal areas, and natural resources therein, held under a claim
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of ownership, occupied or possessed by ICCs/IPs, by themselves or
comprising lands, inland
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through
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immemorial, continuously to the present except when interrupted by
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war, force majeure or displacement by force, deceit, stealth or as a
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consequence of government projects or any other voluntary dealings
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entered into by government and private individuals/corporations, and
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which are necessary to ensure their economic, social and cultural
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welfare. It shall include ancestral lands, forests, pasture, residential,
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agricultural, and other lands individually owned whether alienable and
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disposable or otherwise, hunting grounds, burial grounds, areas of
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worship , bodies of water, mineral and other natural resources, and
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lands which may no longer be exclusively occupied by ICCs/IPs but from
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which
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subsistence and traditional activities, particularly the home ranges of
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ICCs/IPs who are still nomadic and/or shifting cultivators
their
they
ancestors,
traditionally
communally
and
historically
or
individually
had
since
access to
time
for their
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d) Ancestral lands - lands occupied, possessed and utilized by individuals,
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families and clans who are members of the ICCs/IPs by themselves or
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through their predecessors-in-interest, under claims of individual or
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traditional group ownership, continuously, to the present except when
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interrupted by war, force majeure or displacement by force, deceit,
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stealth, or as a consequence of government development aggression
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projects and other voluntary dealings entered into by government and
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private individuals/corporations including, but not limited to, residential
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lots, rice terraces or paddies, private forests, swidden farms and tree
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lots;
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35
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e) Beneficiation - -d, process wherein a large fraction of the waste material is
removed from the mineral ore;
f) Buffer Zones - identified areas outside the boundaries of and immediately