Opposition against planned mineral exploration…continued to grow as tribal residents from six villages trooped to the site of a road blockade to prevent the entry of a mining firm into their community…despite a court order prohibiting their leaders from stopping the transport of equipment and construction materials of Oxiana Phils. Inc. (OPI) [now part of Royalco] to the exploration site…"We do not want the promise of a better life that the mining company is using to convince us. We do not want to lose the fertile lands that we till...”said [a] vegetable farmer...