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 ...

Bougainville was PNG’s economic powerhouse for two decades until 1989, when a bloody civil war erupted over revenue from Panguna, the world’s third-biggest open cut gold and copper mine and ...

Panguna, which was operated by Rio subsidiary Bougainville Copper, was once one of the world’s largest copper mines. It was shut in 1989 after local protests over the disbursement of revenue ...

Rio Tinto Group contributed to widespread damage due to waste left at an abandoned copper mine in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, and risks to local communities are ongoing, a report has found.

After two years of work, the scale of legacy issues at the Panguna mine in Bougainville has been laid bare in the first of what will be multiple reports over many years, with a call for urgent ...

The latest report on the abandoned Panguna copper mine, once operated by Rio Tinto's subsidiary Bougainville Copper, reveals serious environmental contamination and ongoing risks to local ...

and the Autonomous Bougainville Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding addressing the findings of the ‘Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment’ (PMLIA) report. The independent ...

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 ...