Philex Mining Corporation Achieves Quality Product and Sustained Production using Emerson’s PlantWeb DigitalPlant Architecture
Philex Mining Corporation Achieves Quality Product and Sustained Production using Emerson’s PlantWeb DigitalPlant Architecture
3 PagesAPPLICATION Production of copper concentrate with gold and silver as by product. CUSTOMER Philex Mining Corporation (PMC) was incorporated in the Philippines in 1955 to engage primarily in mining activities. The company has operated for the past 50 years the Sto. Tomas II deposit at Padcal, Tuba, Benguet Province, island of Luzon. The Padcal mine was the first underground block cave operation in the Far East. Total ore mined to year-end 2007 was 323.3 million tones, with a metal production of 878.8 million kilograms (1,940.5 million pounds) of copper in concentrate, and 157.7 million grams (5,073.4 thousand ounces) of gold and 173.7 million grams (5,596.1 thousand ounces) of silver in concentrate and bullion form. The Padcal mine is the only remaining copper-gold operation in the Philippin
