An autonomous region of Papua New Guinea has lifted a ban on mining that has been in place since 1971 – but it will not allow the restart of the controversial Panguna copper mine which has been the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia, December 05, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As a member of the Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment (PMLIA) Oversight Committee, Rio Tinto today welcomed the release of the PMLIA report ...

The Autonomous Region of Bougainville is engaged in a new struggle with the Papua New Guinean Government over the ownership of the island's controversial Panguna copper mine. Bougainville wants a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto, Bougainville Copper Limited and the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a Roundtable to ...

Papua New Guinea's National Court dismissed a multi-billion-dollar class action lawsuit against Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) and a former unit over damage allegedly caused by the Panguna copper mine, without ...

Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ABG) have locked horns over who should own the copper and gold mine that Rio Tinto donated to both last month. According to the Australian ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Papua New Guinea is setting up a review into whether the giant Panguna copper mine can be reopened after it was shut down by ...

The Bougainville Government has imposed an indefinite moratorium on mining at the troubled Panguna site — once the world's biggest open-cut copper mine. Community split on whether a licence for the ...

PANGUNA, Bougainville (Mekamui News/Pacific Media Watch): On the April 13, a cloudy and wet day, we took a chance to visit Panguna mine. Before we left Arawa, we thought that it will be sunshine in ...

SUBIACO, WESTERN AUSTRALIA / ACCESSWIRE / March 12, 2019 / The Board of RTG Mining Inc. ("RTG", the "Company") (TSX:RTG, ASX:RTG, OTCQB:RTGGF) announces that, as previously advised the Special Mining ...