The facility included housing for 10,000 people, a mess hall, shops, administration buildings, and an outdoor movie theater.

[1] Manicani Island suffered a direct hit from Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda).

Allegations of human rights abuses arose when 70 protesters were violently dispersed by police.

[7] In June 2012 one of Nickle Asia's other subsidiaries, Samar Nickel Resource Corp, filed criminal charges when members of an anti-mining group blockaded the port to stop delivery of a vehicle meant to transport schoolchildren around the island.

“Manicani Island nickel mining has reduced the amount of land available to farmers and siltation into the ocean has adversely impacted fishing; before mining, agriculture and aquaculture could sustain the people of Manicani Island but now they have been made poorer.” - Journal of Geography and Geology, 2013[9]