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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The island, which has been seeking independence from Papua New Guinea since the late 1980s, is looking for funds to start mining activities in Panguna, with the approval of Port Moresby.

A two-year study of the long-abandoned Panguna mine found impacts continue to put the local community’s lives at risk. A two-year study of the Panguna mine – located on the autonomous island ...

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

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

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

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 ...