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

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

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

Rio Tinto says it is willing to discuss the future of the island's Panguna copper mine with concerned locals. Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper’s Panguna mine has lain dormant since 1988 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Oct. 17, 2024 — A new vaccine provides hope for treating and even preventing the highly contagious and difficult-to-treat Clostridioides difficile infection, more commonly known as C. difficile ...

Israelis Were Surprised to Discover Sinwar’s Body After Shooting Stopped The soldiers who killed Yahya Sinwar, a major target of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, had not expected to run ...

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.