Tag: Bougainville Copper Limited

By Harry Pearl of BenarNews An initial hearing of a class action against mining giant Rio Tinto over the toxic legacy of the Panguna copper...

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: By Aubrey Belford of the OCCRP High in the forested mountains of Papua New Guinea's Bougainville Island lies an abandoned, kilometer-wide crater cut...

RNZ Pacific A cabinet minister in Bougainville is furious that the Papua New Guinea government has decided to make a vote on independence an absolute...

Last week the Bougainville Autonomous Government announced an agreement had been reach with Panguna landowners to reopen the island's controversial gold and copper mine. Once...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby The dormant Bougainville Copper Limited share value has more than doubled overnight on the Australian Stock Exchange following a...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Bougainville Affairs Minister Fr Simon Dumarinu has been ousted by four votes as the first casualty of the Peter O'Neill government...

By Franklin Kolma The Autonomous Bougainville Government has granted its second mining exploration licence to a Philippine company in a low-key event at Tunania, the...

By Aloysius Laukai in Buka The President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government, Chief Dr John Momis, has announced an indefinite moratorium on exploration and mining...

OPINION: By Phillip Miriori As many would be aware, we Bougainvilleans have been through a tough history with the disasters that came from the past...

A video report by Fabian Hakalits. Source: EMTV News By Fabian Hakalits in Buka Panguna landowners will determine any reopening of the controversial mine on Bougainville,...

Panguna women landowner protesters -- mothers from the mining affected areas and the women from Central Bougainville -- have demanded the Autonomous Bougainville Government...

Pacific Media Watch News Desk Women in Central Bougainville and landowners of the Panguna copper mine site are opposing the reopening of the mine. A delegation...

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has denied making a deal with Rio Tinto to take up the Bougainville Copper Limited shares offloaded...

The independent blog PNG Mine Watch was originally established to track the progress of the Ramu nickel mine in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea,...

Bougainville's president and Meekamu landowner chiefs have condemned the Rio Tinto "mess" over Panguna mine and the traditional landowners have called for the company...

Lifting of the mining moratorium on Bougainville has hoodwinked the majority of people on Bougainville, says the Bougainville Freedom Movement. In March 2016, the Autonomous...

Edited extracts from a report by the Health Medicine Network published on PNG Attitude. Estimates of the number of war deaths attributable to the Bougainville...

OPINION: By Bougainville Freedom Movement Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has taken on the portfolio of Bougainville Affairs in his latest cabinet reshuffle. O'Neill...

Report from the Pacific Media Centre With the window for Bougainville's independence referendum now open, time is of the essence if the ABG is to...

Report by Liam Cochrane in Port Moresby The Papua New Guinea government wants to buy Rio Tinto's shares in the Australian company Bougainville Copper Limited...