BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has ordered the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) in Region 2 (Cagayan Valley) to identify a possible area for a “Minahang Bayan” site in Quezon town for residents displaced by recent landslides.

Cimatu earlier ordered the MGB Region 2 to close down illegal small-scale mining (SSM) operations in a landslide-prone area in the town’s Barangay Runruno a few of whose residents died in landslides during the onslaught of Typhoon “Ulysses” more than a week ago.