Source: The National

A COMMUNITY leader on Lihir Island, in New Ireland, says the leaders should now be focused on sustaining the economy after the mine closes.

Lihir Island hosts one of the world’s largest and richest mining projects in being developed by Newcrest Mining Limited.

NAUTILUS Minerals country manager Mel Togolo says the seabed miner only has understandings with the East New Britain and the New Ireland provincial governments.

Source: The National

He said the Canadian seabed miner signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with each of these provinces.

He was responding to remarks made by locals from New Ireland stating they wanted to be a party in the memorandum of agreement (MOA).

Togolo said there was never a MOA signed between Nautilus and any other parties.

Source:The National

Nautilus Minerals holds many tenement applications in Papua New Guinea and intends to have operations in the country so long as there are minerals to produce, country manager Mel Togolo said.

He said the Canadian company would keep operating depending on the level of minerals.

“We intend to have operations in the county for as long we have minerals to produce and for as long as PNG wants and allow us to operate in their waters.”

Source: Post Courier

Source: The National

RAMU NiCo’s Kurumbukari mine in Madang has been forced to close after a group of villagers damaged properties worth millions of kina on Monday.

Five Chinese employees were injured after the armed villagers stormed into the office area of the KBK mining site of Ramu NiCo, damaging equipment and facilities, according to a company source.

Acting provincial police commander Senior Inspector Ben Neneo has sent a police team, including officers from the Criminal Investigation Unit, to Ramu to investigate. The incident happened around 8.30am.

Your help is urgently needed by indigenous communities in Papua New Guinea who are seeing their forests illegally destroyed by foreign-owned logging companies.

These companies are stealing logs, destroying the valuable forest environments communities rely on for their subsistence and subjecting local people to violence and abuse.

Source: Radio New Zealand

The director of Papua New Guinea's Institute of National Affairs says a plan to sell betelnut in packaged form in Port Moresby could create a whole new set of problems.

Source: Mine Watch

The Constitutional and Law Reform Commission has made a series of recommendations for changes to the law as it affects the management and disposal of mine tailings.

The recommendations are contained in a Draft Report (which can be downloaded below - 650kb) on which the Commission welcomes submissions

The Commission says submissions are welcome from a broad cross-section of the community, as well as those with a special interest in the inquiry.

Source: Dr Roman Grynberg

Source: EMTV

The Constitutional and Law Reform Commission is pushing for a ban on deep sea and river tailings placement in Papua New Guinea.

These two proposals were amongst the 19 recommendations that have been drafted and will be presented to the Minister for Justice and Attorney General, for perusal and cabinet approval.