The dormant, open-cut mine is owned by Bougainville Copper Ltd , which has retained its Australian stock-market listing. It in turn is owned 53.58 percent by Rio Tinto.

Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper (BCL) ran the Panguna copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea from the early 1970s to 1990 when it was abandoned during a civil war that was largely ...

Rio Tinto's (NYSE:RIO) abandoned Bougainville mine continues to pose imminent life-threatening risks to local residents, according to a report released Friday, prompting community and human rights ...

Bougainville leaders see the reopening of Panguna mine as key to financing independence. Bougainville Copper Limited, the Rio Tinto subsidiary that once operated the mine, backs this assessment.

Communities around Rio Tinto's shuttered copper mine in Bougainville face a serious threat of flooding due to unstable mine instrastructure, an interim report commissioned by the mining company ...

Theonila Roka Matbob, a local landowner, near the shuttered Panguna mine pit in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, in 2019. Human Rights Law Center, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...

One of the first women to hold an open seat in Bougainville, Theonila Roka Matbob, is "more relaxed, more focused" and ...

Rio Tinto is facing accusations itSYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Rio Tinto is facing accusations it "side-stepped" responsibility to clean up poisonous waste from a closed mine on Papua New Guinea's ...

Rio Tinto ( RIO +0.9%) says it will talk to stakeholders over allegations of human rights breaches at a giant copper and gold mine it formerly owned in Papua New Guinea, after community members ...

SYDNEY-- Rio Tinto PLC said it has reached an agreement with residents of Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, to assess the legacy impact of the Panguna copper mine that it ...