SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bougainville must be able to fund at least half of its budget if the Pacific archipelago's aspiration of political independence from Papua New Guinea is to be a success, PNG Prime ...

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 ...

Lawyers representing more than 3,000 residents of Bougainville island in the Pacific Ocean have filed a class action lawsuit in a Papua New Guinea court against Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) seeking ...

An independent assessment of an abandoned copper mine formerly owned by Rio Tinto on the South Pacific island of Bougainville found risks from unstable buildings, a potential for landslides, and ...

There's confusion surrounding the controversial Panguna copper-gold mine in Bougainville after the semi-autonomous region's government appears to have sidelined project owner Bougainville Copper.

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Pacific island Bougainville's independence path relies on economy, says PNG's Marape Bougainville must be able to fund at least half of its budget if the Pacific archipelago's aspiration of political ...

ARAWA, Papua New Guinea, Dec. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Island Passage Exploration Limited (IPX or the “Company”) has made extensive progress during the last three quarters in its copper-gold ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(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 as a critical step ...

SYDNEY, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea hopes to reopen its huge Bougainville copper mine by 2012, two decades after secessionist violence forced it to close, and to play a bigger role in world ...

After a steady stream of quarterly updates noting there has been no production since May 1989, Bougainville Copper finally has something to say about its Panguna project in the autonomous region of ...