Villagers file human rights complaint over plan for giant PNG …

More than 2,000 people in 60 villages in Papua New Guinea's north – where the country's largest gold, copper and silver mine is slated to be built – …

Otterburn To Acquire The Kainantu Gold-Copper Mine In Papua New Guinea ...

The Target will own, on completion of the Transaction, of the former operating Kainantu Gold-Copper Mine in Papua New Guinea ("PNG"), currently owned by a subsidiary of Barrick Gold Corporation ("Barrick"). About the Target.

Papua New Guinea - Mining Equipment and Services

PNG has enormous reserves of various minerals and gas. Mineral exports are gold, copper, silver, nickel and cobalt. PNG mines are spread across the country, the largest of which include Ok Tedi Copper and Gold Mine, Porgera Gold Mine, Lihir Gold Mine, Hidden Valley Gold Mine, Simberi Gold Mine, Tolukuma Gold Mine and Ramu Nickel Mine.

Papua New Guinea's seabed to be mined for gold and copper | Mining …

Nautilus will mine an area 1.6km beneath the Bismarck Sea, 50km off the coast of the PNG island of New Britain. The ore extracted contains high-grade copper and gold. The project is being ...

INDONESIA | Freeport-McMoRan

Through its subsidiary, PT-FI, FCX mines one of the world's largest copper and gold deposits in the Grasberg minerals district in Papua, Indonesia. In addition to copper and gold, PT-FI produces silver. FCX has a 48.76 percent interest …

Gold and Copper in Australia and Papua New Guinea

PAPUA NEW GUINEA • World-class gold & copper deposits • "Giant deposit" exploration potential • Modern and proven Mining Act • Strong history of mining • Experienced mining industry workforce Lihir Gold Mine, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea Mt Isa Copper Mine, Queensland,

In Papua New Guinea, locals lodge human rights complaint against ...

Image: AP. In a key development, more than 2,000 people from 60 villages in northern Papua New Guinea have filed a human rights complaint with the Australian administration against developer PanAust, which plans to build the country's largest gold, copper, and silver mine. According to the landowners of the proposed Frieda River mine, on a ...

Mineral Potential in Papua New Guinea - Basic Mining …

Mining Activity. Mining in PNG is dated back to 1877 when alluvial mining begin at Laloki. Today mining is highly diversified, from primitive gouging to panning to highly mechanized large open pit mines. The three main commodities mined are gold, copper and silver. Gold is mined from single miner type to large highly mechanized mining and its ...

Grasberg mine - Wikipedia

The 2020 production was 367,000 tonnes (809,000,000 lb) of copper, 26.4 tonnes (848,000 ozt) of gold and 106 tonnes (3,400,000 ozt) of silver. [1] The concentrate is delivered by pipeline to Amamapare . In August 2017, FCX announced that it will divest its ownership in PT-FI so that Indonesia owns 51%.

Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited - Hard Hat Hunter

With 70 years of experience, Harmony is South Africa's largest gold producer by volume. In Papua New Guinea, our assets include the wholly-owned Hidden Valley open-pit gold-silver mine and surrounding tenure. Our growing world-class gold-copper portfolio includes 50% of the Golpu... Read More >. +27 11 411 2000.

Wafi-Golpu Gold and Copper Project, Papua New Guinea

The Papua New Guinea government has the right to purchase 30% equity interest in any mineral discovery at Wafi-Golpu, before the commencement of mining. The Wafi-Golpu project is expected to start production in 2020, with …

Bougainville's $58B gold-copper mine rights safe for now as Mining …

The autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville has rejected controversial changes to its Mining Act, which were said to be aimed at letting a new company extract the island's riches. The ...

Mineral Potential in Papua New Guinea - Basic …

Mining Activity. Mining in PNG is dated back to 1877 when alluvial mining begin at Laloki. Today mining is highly diversified, from primitive gouging to panning to highly mechanized large open pit mines. The three main …

Freeport`s Gold Mine in Papua Largest in the World

Freeport-McMoran Inc. financial report as of December 2016 shows that the company has 26.9 billion pounds of copper and 25.8 million ounces of gold in reserve in Papua. Freeport copper reserve in Indonesia is the third largest in the world after that of North and South America. Freeport's gold reserve in Indonesia is its world's biggest ...

The Largest Gold And Copper Deposit In The World

Mine- At 14,000 feet, in the remote jungles of New Guinea is the largest gold and copper deposit in the world. Getting to that deposit …

Papua New Guinea's seabed to be mined for gold and …

Canadian firm Nautilus Minerals has been granted a 20-year licence by the PNG government to commence the Solwara 1 project, the world's first commercial deep sea mining operation. Nautilus will...

Update On Otterburn's Acquisition Of The Kainantu Gold-Copper Mine …

About K92. K92 Mining owns and operates the Kainantu Gold Mine in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. The Kainantu Gold Mine is a high-grade, low cost underground mine in a region known for Tier 1 deposits.

Papua New Guinea - Mining Equipment and Services

The Newcrest Mining Limited and Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited each own 50 per cent of the Wafi-Golpu Project through the Wafi-Golpu Joint Venture (WGJV). The Wafi-Golpu Project is an advanced exploration project located in the Morobe Province, 65 kilometers south-west of Lae City. Wafi Golpu will be PNG's first block caving operations ...

About - Harmony

Harmony, a world-class gold mining and exploration company with a copper footprint, operates in South Africa and Papua New Guinea, one of the world's premier new gold-copper regions. With more than 70 years in the industry, Harmony is an experienced emerging-market gold miner. Value-accretive acquisitions have revitalised our company as the ...

Apache-Abba Minerals Limited

high grade gold & copper properties located in a premier mining region in papua new guinea (png)! malaumanda projects located within "new guinea gold copper belt" host to world class mines and deposits .

K92 Mining Declares Maiden Inferred Resource of 10.8

K92 Mining Inc. is engaged in the production of gold, copper and silver from the Kora deposit at the Kainantu Gold Mine in the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea, as well as ...

Papua New Guinea's region to re-open copper mine

Jaroslaw Adamowski - 22 Feb, 2022. Landowners from the Panguna mine area and the Autonomous Bougainville Government, which governs an au-tonomous region of Papua New Guinea, have reached a joint resolu-tion to re-launch the Panguna copper mine. The signing took place during a summit held for Panguna landowner groups.

INDONESIA | Freeport-McMoRan

Through its subsidiary, PT-FI, FCX mines one of the world's largest copper and gold deposits in the Grasberg minerals district in Papua, Indonesia. In addition to copper and gold, PT-FI produces silver. FCX has a 48.76 percent interest in PT-FI and manages its mining operations. PT-FI's results are consolidated in FCX's financial statements.

Uncovering impacts of gold mining in Papua New …

The pacific island of Papua New Guinea is one of the world's most resource rich countries, hosting nearly 7 percent of global biodiversity and important reserves of gold, copper and hydrocarbons.

Uncovering Impacts of Gold Mining in Papua New Guinea

The pacific island of Papua New Guinea is one of the world's most resource rich countries, hosting nearly 7 percent of global biodiversity and important reserves of gold, copper and hydrocarbons. However, despite a …

THE FRIEDA-RIVER COPPER GOLD PROJECT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

A collective response from 10 United Nations Special Rapporteurs who delivered written letters of concerns regarding 'potential and actual threats to life, health, bodily integrity, water and food' to stakeholder governments of Papua New Guinea, Australia, China, Canada and the developers of the gold, copper and silver mine.

Kainantu Gold-copper System, Papua New Guinea

The Kainantu Project is located within the New Guinea Thrust Belt in northern Papua New Guinea. The area has a long history of exploration and production, with the discovery of alluvial gold in 1928 followed by the discovery of vein deposits of gold and copper at Kora in the 1950s and the current Irumafimpa vein gold mine.

Nautilus Minerals to continue with sea bed mining project in Papua New ...

Canadian mining firm Nautilus Minerals has entered into an agreement with Papua New Guinea (PNG) to proceed with production at its Solwara 1 gold-copper-silver underwater mining project. As per the deal, the PNG Government will take a 15% stake in the project, for which it has already paid Nautilus a non-refundable amount of $7m.

Papua New Guinea Mining - MiningInfo - Google

Papua New Guinea is rich in mineral resources including gold, copper, and nickel. Mining and exploration is regulated by the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) under the PNG Department of Mining. In 2006, mineral production was 194,355 tonnes of copper and 58.3 tonnes of gold from five operating mines. Minerals make up 50% of the country's ...

Otterburn to Acquire the Kainantu Gold-Copper Mine …

The Target will own, on completion of the Transaction, of the former operating Kainantu Gold-Copper Mine in Papua New Guinea ("PNG"), currently owned by a subsidiary of Barrick Gold Corporation …

Frieda River Copper and Gold Project, Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea Ownership PanAust (80%) and Highlands Pacific (20%) Reserves 12.9 million tons of contained copper and 20 million ounces of gold Expand Concentrate produced at the mine will be transported …

The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who say …

Today, these remote, sharp-edged mountains are part of West Papua, Indonesia, and home to the Grasberg mine, one of the biggest gold mines – and third largest copper mine – in the world....

The trans-national gold curse of Papua New Guinea

This paper reviews gold and copper mining in Papua New Guinea (PNG) along the "triad stakeholder model" (Ballard and Banks 2003) proposing a triad relationship between (1) trans-national mining corporations, (2) the nation-state of Papua New Guinea, and (3) indigenous local communities, their socio-ecological environment and claims.Gold mining …