Source: Post Courier

QAQET (Baining) leaders of East New Britain have vowed to be united in thier stand regarding economical high impact projects on thier traditional land. This was made known in a meeting held lastweek at the Five Station conference room in Kokopo, and organised by the provincial administrator's office.

Source: PNG Mine Watch

While it is fairly certain a few champagne corks were popped Friday night, as a conspiratorial session of parliament finally passed a legislation designed to uphold Rio Tinto’s leases in Panguna, and pave the way for other industrial mining operations.

Source: EMTV online

Kurumbukari landowners in the Bundi district of Madang have apologized to Ramu NiCo Management for the mob attack on KBK Mine last Monday.

Today, chairman of KBK Landowners Association, Mathew Denguo, said the attack was done by a minority group and does not represent all the landowners.

Mr Denguo said the act was criminal in nature and uncivilised, bringing shame to the landowners and disruption to the project.

Source: PNG Mine Watch

The Mineral Resources Authority of Papua New Guinea and Spatial Dimension have developed a Mining Cadastre Portal to improve transparency and promote investment in the Papua New Guinea mining sector.

Source: Radio New Zealand

Reports from New Caledonia say an investigation has been opened after an incident at the Vale nickel plant.

The local newspaper says a device measuring the density of ore pulp was damaged in what the miner says amounted to a technical incident.

There was concern that a radioactive substances could have affected staff and the environment but a internal assessment found no risk.

It is not known what caused the glitch.

Source: PNG Mine Watch

Source:The National

POLICE have arrested five men in connection with the raid and destruction of properties last week at the Ramu Nickel’s Kurumbukari mine site in Madang.

A Madang police source said the five were understood to be the main instigators of the raid last Monday.

The source said two of the people arrested were employed in the company’s community affairs department, two from a security firm plus a senior employee.

Source: PNG Loop

Nautilus Minerals Ltd has signed an agreement with the East New Britain Provincial Government to strengthen the partnership between the two parties.

Nautilus Minerals country manager Mel Togolo in a statement said the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signified the commitment to and the continuation of a positive working relationship between the ENB Provincial Government and Nautilus Minerals.

Source:The National

Ramu NiCo’s annual forecast production for this year will not be affected following attack on it’s employees by locals recently.

The Chinese owned nickel mine in Madang, which was shut for a few days following an attack by armed villagers, should still be able to meet its target of 22,000 tonnes of nickel this year.

Source: PNG Mine Watch

Phtograph By: Jonathan Hayward, The Canadian Press

The scale is hard to imagine: gray sludge, several feet deep, gushing with the force of a fire hose through streams and forest—coating everything in its path with ashy gunk. What happened on Monday might have been one of North America’s worst environmental disasters in decades, yet the news barely made it past the Canadian border.