Rio Tinto says it is willing to discuss the future of the island's Panguna copper mine with concerned locals. Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper’s Panguna mine has lain dormant since 1988 ...
There is an island in the South Pacific half the size of Wales which is set to become the world's youngest country. Bougainville is a remote part of Papua New Guinea where the mining giant Rio ...
Taiof Island, also known as Toiokh Island, is a small island off the north-western coast of Bougainville Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in eastern Papua New Guinea.
Shipped back to Europe along with the other French officers, all deprived of military honors by the victors, Bougainville was prohibited by the terms of surrender from any further active duty against ...
A future run on clean energy is impossible without lots of copper, a key component in solar panels and electric cars. That has some looking to a small island in the South Pacific called Bougainville, ...