The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville continues to generate toxic waste and may spark landslides that could kill people and cause lasting ecological damage. The miner has agreed with community ...

Ishmael Toroama’s life has been dominated by a single ambition. The president of Bougainville, an autonomous island that is ...

The mining giant Rio Tinto can attest to that. In Bougainville, on a mountain called Panguna, Rio Tinto once operated the ...

An independent assessment of an abandoned copper mine formerly owned by Rio Tinto on the South Pacific island of Bougainville found risks from unstable buildings, a potential for landslides ...

as provided for in the Bougainville Mining Act of 2015. After these exciting initial results and our successful board tour, we have greenlighted an expanded program for 2025.” Discussion of ...

Bougainville's leader Toroama said the region was "looking at reopening" the Panguna mine, which at one point accounted for more than 40 percent of Papua New Guinea's exports. It operated between ...

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 ...

This is the first article in a two-part series on the history, context and key features of the proposed independence constitution that is in the process of being developed for Bougainville ...

The independent report assesses the environmental impacts and directly connected social and human rights impacts caused by the Panguna mine since Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) ceased ...

For one, Bougainville is rich in natural resources. While the war brought much of the copper and gold mining operations to a halt, the province used to be one of PNG's richest before the war.

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