Rio Tinto's legacy Bougainville mine poses imminent life-threatening risks to locals, a report showed on Friday, prompting ...

Bougainville must be able to fund at least half of its budget if the Pacific archipelago's aspiration of political ...

The island, which has been seeking independence from Papua New Guinea since the late 1980s, is looking for funds to start ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Rio Tinto’s abandoned Panguna copper mine in Bougainville continues to generate toxic waste and could spark deadly landslides ...

A two-year study of the Panguna mine -- located on the autonomous island of Bougainville -- found that mine structures had "deteriorated", while "tailings continued to migrate downstream and ...

Rio Tinto Group contributed to widespread damage due to waste left at an abandoned copper mine in Bougainville, Papua New ...

Papua New Guinea's copper- and gold-rich Bougainville region is set to declare independence by 2027, eight years after a ...

Rio Tinto's (NYSE:RIO) abandoned Bougainville mine continues to pose imminent life-threatening risks to local residents, according to a report released Friday, prompting community and human rights ...

Communities living with the ongoing devastation from Panguna mine are calling on Rio Tinto to commit to funding remediation ...

Image: PMLIA Report/BenarNews In August, Rio Tinto and its former subsidiary and mine operator Bougainville Copper Limited ...

Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama is seeking international investors to re-open one of the world’s biggest copper mines, with Marape backing his authority on Wednesday to make business ...