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 ...

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.

MELBOURNE, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto's (RIO.AX), opens new tab legacy Bougainville mine poses imminent life-threatening risks to locals, a report showed on Friday, prompting communities to call ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...