Mining campaigners react angrily to LOCOG’s Rio Tinto ‘exception’
…and the Grasberg copper and gold mine in West Papua. In Bougainville, in the Pacific, it hopes to reopen a copper mine which caused such catastrophic pollution that it sparked…
Bougainville Copper's bloody "hidden past" exposed: Rio Tinto must address abuse claims, says criminologist
Debate continues raging over the role played by Rio Tinto’s subsidiary Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL) in the decade-long war waged by Papua New Guinea “security” forces on the people of…
The greatest threat to Bougainville Copper’s future is its hidden past
Bougainville Copper Limited, or BCL, is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. Last month the President of the European Shareholders of Bougainville Copper (ESBC) Axel Sturm publicly raised concerns over the…
Rio Tinto and the 2012 Olympic Medals
…Bougainville, in the Pacific, the company hopes to reopen a copper mine which caused such catastrophic pollution that local people closed it down. Vicious repression of anti-mine protesters by the…
Indigenous landowners want Rio Tinto's Bougainville Copper Agreement repealed
LANDOWNERS of the Bougainville Copper Mine have called on the government for the Bougainville Copper Agreement (BCA) Act 1969 to be repealed. Panguna Landowners Association (PLA) stated that if Panguna…