The Porgera gold mine was re-opened with fanfare earlier this year, after a three year shut-down during which the government ...

A large-scale study of social and environmental impacts from Rio Tinto's abandoned Panguna mine in Bougainville finds a ...

An initial hearing of a class action against mining giant Rio Tinto over the toxic legacy of the Panguna copper mine on the ...

A ruling has put an end to the long-running dispute over the site near Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory.

Mateparae, who is of Maori descent, brings strong credentials to the talks, including experience as the former chief of New ...

The earthquake was centered in Panguna at a depth of 49.8 kilometers (about 30.9 miles). The latest Papua New Guinea ...

Indigenous Affairs Minister ­Malarndirri McCarthy has called on opposition counterpart ­Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to join her ...

SYDNEY, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 jolted 57 km south of Panguna, Papua New Guinea at 06:13:34 on Monday local time (20:13:34 GMT on Sunday), the U.S. Geological ...

A class action against Rio Tinto has been filed in a Papua New Guinea court in relation to a long-shuttered copper mine that ...

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A large-scale study of social and environmental impacts from Rio Tinto's abandoned Panguna mine in Bougainville finds a plethora of actual and potential human rights violations, including risks to ...

An initial hearing of a class action against mining giant Rio Tinto over the toxic legacy of the Panguna copper mine on the autonomous island of Bougainville has been held in Papua New Guinea.