"Let me repeat that: the DENR Secretary, doing his own arithmetic, publicly admitted that, under the profit sharing formula in DAO 99-56 approved in La Bugal the government will receive "somewhere from zero to nil" in the mining revenues of foreign contractors. "Zero to nil" means not even a pittance. The Filipino people will receive nothing, zero, nil, ni sinkosin wala, in the profits from the estimated P47 trillion mineral wealth of the country."