Mount Fubilan was a mountain in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
After decades of mining, the mountain has been replaced by a massive pit in the ground.
After feasibility studies for an open-pit operation, conducted by a consortium of companies led by BHP, mining started in 1984, with the company processing gold for extraction through a cyanide process.
[1] By 31 December 2004, 8,896,577 tonnes of copper concentrate had been mined, containing 2,853,265 tonnes of copper and 7,035,477 ounces of gold, worth 12 billion US dollars at today's prices.
In addition, between 1985 and 1990, 47.642 tonnes (1,680,553 ounces) of gold bullion was produced.