Tag: Panguna mine

By Stefan Armbruster in Brisbane The first large-scale environmental impact assessment of Rio Tinto’s abandoned Panguna mine in Papua New Guinea has found local communities...

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...

RNZ Pacific Community leaders around Panguna mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville want mining giant Rio Tinto to help out following...

Asia Pacific Report Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama today condemned a visiting Papua New Guinean member of Parliament for "mocking" the autonomous region's independence aspirations during...

The National Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama has visited Guava village in the heartland of the Panguna mine in Central Bougainville to pay his respects to...

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...

By Evan Schuurman Bougainville community leader and MP Theonila Roka Matbob has received the Gwynne Skinner Human Rights Award in recognition of her outstanding work...

By Chris Baria at PNG Mine Watch The chairman of Bougainville Hardliners Group and former combatant-turned-businessman, James Onartoo, has called on the Autonomous Bougainville Government...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Landowners throughout Bougainville were today calling on President John Momis for protection from a “callous opportunist.” The landowners said that the customary...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A highly controversial proposal by an unknown and newly registered company, Caballus Mining, is attempting to grab a monopoly over all...

By Kevin McQuillan of Business Advantage PNG Two court hearings next week - one in Port Moresby and the other in Melbourne - will help...

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...

Flashback: An EMTV News video report on the Bougainville peace. By Fabian Hakalits in Arawa It has been 16 years this week since the signing of...

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,...

Landowner women and mothers have protested over plans to reopen the Panguna mine on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They demonstrated in Arawa in central...