[1] Bintang Delapan Group is one of the major operators of the mine, subcontracted by Asia Pacific Investment Development.
[1] In 2021, the Solomon Islands government reported that Bintang Delapan had failed to pay taxes and royalties on one third of the bauxite shipments they had exported since 2015, leaving the company owing around AU $16 million of unpaid taxes.
Residents have said that the fabric of their community was damaged by the influx of foreign workers and that their water and soils are polluted.
[1] In February 2019, during Cyclone Oma, a bulk carrier was grounded on Kongobainiu reef and spilled 300 tonnes of oil into the bay.
Local people were unable to fish, their livestock died, and children suffered from skin and eye infections.