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Friday, April 28, 2006
Dinagat residents uncover 'firestones'
By Ben Serrano
Caraga Correspondent
SURIGAO CITY -- Folks in Dinagat Island said they discovered stones in their area that burst into flames when exposed to air or sunlight.
These same residents said the stones, which had to be soaked in water to maintain a stable temperature, are part of the so-called deuterium fuel deposits found only here in Surigao del Norte at the Philippine Deep.
Wilma Catoto, a Surigao City resident with relatives in the island to Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro how the stone taken out from a glass filled with water bursts into flames when exposed in a matter of seconds to thin air outside her home.
Catoto through her son, Roel, a journalism graduate from the University of the Visayas cut out a small portion of the "miracle stone" and soaked it into a glass of water.
But the stone still flared up when exposed to air.
Catoto said Dinagat residents stockpiled the stones they discovered but are hesitant to bring it along with them whenever they visit this seaport city of Surigao due to the danger it may cause during their travels.
"The danger is that when the stones are taken out from its container where it was soaked and suddenly burst into flames that it would near gasoline or alcohol," Roel Catoto said.
Catoto claimed that some government officials already have pieces of the stone, which includes Surigao del Norte Governor Robert Lyndon Barbers.
Surigao del Norte Representative Robert Ace Barbers said if there is truth to the reports "then Surigaonons will be much more lucky to have another source of fuel," he said.
Earlier in Butuan City, a couple named Ireneo and Antonia Bolongaita of Barangay Pagatpatan discovered "methane gas" from his water well after diggings for water supply on Holy Thursday in 1982.
The methane gas is a colorless, odorless gas and its discovery was in relation to petroleum oil found underneath earth's crust.
The Canadian engineers in 1985 confided to the couple that the crude oil discovery is only part of the huge fossil fuel deposit found in Mindanao as it also admitted the presence of "Deuterium Gas" at the Philippine Deep found in Surigao.
(April 28, 2006 issue)
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