Mining in Papua New Guinea
[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.
On Monday August 23, 2010 the A$9.5 billion takeover offer by Newcrest was approved after 99.86% of Lihir Gold Shareholders voted in favour of it.
The Misima mine was a joint venture by Placer Dome (owning 80%) and the state-owned Orogen Minerals.
In March 2012, Barrick closed its post closure monitoring office in Bwagaoia having successfully rehabilitated the mine and mill sites.
Other sources of income, especially for people living on the north coast, are cash crops of coconuts, copra, and cacao.
The Ok Tedi Mine is situated at Mount Fubilan in the Star Mountains in western PNG, close to the Indonesian border.
This development marked one of the first major investments in PNG, and was at one stage one of the world's largest copper - gold mines.
The mine is located at the head of the Porgera Valley and end of the river and operated by Barrick Gold d.b.a.
The Ramu lateritic nickel-cobalt mining project is located in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea.
The mine is located on the Kurumbukari plateau, on the southern side of the Ramu River Valley, 75 kilometres (47 mi) to the southwest of Madang.
The processing plant site is located on the coast of Basamuk Bay, 55 kilometres (34 mi) to the southeast of Madang.
[18] Discovered in 1962 by the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, the Kurumbakari project was explored intermittently by several companies.
The Solwara 1 Project is located at 1600 metres water depth in the Bismarck Sea, New Ireland Province.
[22] Important minerals are created by the rapid cooling of the gases emerging from volcanic openings on the sea floor.
[27] After the construction of an open-cut gold mine and an ore-processing facility on Misima Island in 1988, large increases of sedimentation caused a decrease in tissue-layer thickness of a nearby coral reef.
[29] Increased sediment load in the river has caused high concentrations of dissolved copper in the inner floodplain.
