New mining audits will begin in March for another batch of companies as the government seeks to settle challenges against closures and suspensions ordered by the Environment department in 2017, a member of an interagency council said.

“We are targeting to start by March and end it by June because its dry season — the best time to visit these mines,” Finance Undersecretary Bayani Agabin told reporters in an interview.

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