Rio Tinto
…the Business Partnership for Development/World Bank. 1989 – Abandoning the Panguna mine and the destruction it caused As tensions in Bougainville increase due to injustices related to the Panguna mine,…
Canadian Mounties Investigating on Bougainville
The Panguna mine Foreign treasure hunters have descended on the battle-scarred and economically bereft Pacific island of Bougainville, as jockeying for its natural riches intensifies. Hot on their trail: The…
Bougainville Needs Reparations, Not Aid
…Kristian Lasslett. The Bougainville war was sparked when landowners shut the Rio Tinto owned Panguna copper mine, owing to its corrosive social and environmental effects. Rio Tinto’s PNG subsidiary implored…
Panguna
UNEP promises to help Bougainville manage clean-up of Rio Tinto mine
…has offered the Bougainville provisional govermnent assistance in cleaning up the mess which former Panguna mine manager, Rio Tinto left behind when it quit the island in 1999. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12435….