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Papua New Guinea has granted police emergency powers, including the use of lethal force, to contain the violence in Porgera between illegal settlers squatting near the gold mine and local ...
Edie Creek, Central New Guinea, 1936. Edie Creek has been a historic gold and silver mining area since its discovery in 1926. [2] Located about 5 km south-west of Wau, it was the centre of one of the first major gold rushes in PNG before World War II. [2]
Papua New Guinea Porgera Gold Mine: August 2, 1994: 11 80 (ANE) At 9:45 am, 2 August 1994, 11 workers were killed when the sensitised AN emulsion plant they were working on exploded at the Porgera Gold Mine. The fatal explosion involved at most a few tonnes of explosive.
Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) is a mining company of Papua New Guinea (PNG) that is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). BCL operated the copper, gold and silver mine at the Panguna mine on Bougainville Island in PNG from 1971 (54 years ago) () to 15 May 1989 (35 years ago) (), when mining operations were officially halted due to militant activity.
Violent attacks near Barrick Gold's Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has likely killed at least 20 people and forced women and children to flee the region, local media reported. Papua ...
Barrick Gold Corp <ABX.TO> <GOLD.N> is set to elevate its troubled Papua New Guinea mine to its top-tier assets, despite landowner and government demands to cede a larger stake and deteriorating ...
Porgera Gold Mine is the second largest mine in Papua New Guinea and is regarded as one of the world's top ten producing gold mines. In 2009, it produced 572,595 ounces of gold and 94,764 ounces of silver and had 2,500 employees and 500 contractors. Since it began operating, the mine has produced more than 16 million ounces of gold and almost 3 ...
Miner Barrick Gold said on Monday Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister James Marape announced an imminent agreement to reopen the disputed Porgera gold mine a year after it was shut. The world's ...