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Mines View Park Promontory: A View of its Mining Past

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(DSC03495) Mining flourished under the American colonial government in the 1920s which designed and chartered Baguio as its only hill station in Asia. Historical accounts from the indigenous Ibaloi tribal community confirm mining’s role in expanding Baguio. The city's economy started with Chinese trading houses that supplied food to American miners and their workers. In fact, the city population grew due to the attraction of mining. Thus, American-led mining operations helped nurture what was once the “vast wilderness” of Benguet province into a “bustling metropolis.” Baguio has the country’s oldest mines that surround the city. Benguet Corporation is the oldest recorded Philippine mining firm, as well as the obscure and defunct operations like Demonstration Mine, which ceased when Japanese forces invaded the city in 1942. (Taken from http://lrcluzon.blogspot.com/2006/05/min ing-museum-for-baguio-centennial.html)

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