Papua New Guinea’s National Court dismissed a multi-billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Rio Tinto Group and a former unit over damage allegedly caused by the historic Panguna copper mine in ...

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 ...

More than three decades after it ceased operations, the people of Bougainville are still grappling with the devastating impact of the Panguna Copper Mine. Thirty-five years after Rio Tinto abandoned ...

Mining giant Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO), Bougainville Copper, and the Autonomous Bougainville Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding addressing the findings of the ‘Panguna Mine Legacy Impact ...

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 ...

Fat profits are being made by speculators confident they can beat a Chinese takeover of one of the world’s great copper and gold deposits on the Pacific island of Bougainville even though it hasn’t ...

Ahead of next year’s referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea, the government of the autonomous region of Bougainville believes reopening the Panguna copper mine is the key to gaining economic ...