Papua New Guinea's Ok Tedi gold and copper mine used to be synonymous with environmental disaster - but a remade operation could now be part of PNG's landscape for the next decade.

The rapidly introduced legislation cancelled the shares of Ok Tedi's 63 per cent owner, a trust named PNG Sustainable Development Program, and issued new shares to the government, giving it 100 ...

The Ok Tedi mine – which BHP co-owned with the PNG government until selling its stake in 2002 – discharged tens of millions of tonnes of mine waste into the local river system during the 1980s ...

PNG's parliament this week pushed through laws for the government to take full ownership of the giant mine, and also to remove a 12-year old immunity deal for the mine's former owner, BHP Billiton ...

PNG begins new legal action over Ok Tedi mine. Papua New Guinea has opened a new front in a long-running stoush over the controversial Ok Tedi copper and gold mine. Ben Butler.

Australian-British mining giant BHP-Billiton announced at the end of January that it was severing all ties with the Ok Tedi copper mine in Papua New Guinea. Facing the possibility of legal ...

PNG landowners close to extending Ok Tedi mine Jemima Garrett for Pacific Beat Posted Tue 4 Dec 2012 at 5:46am Tuesday 4 Dec 2012 at 5:46am Tue 4 Dec 2012 at 5:46am , ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Papua New Guinea will not extend the mining lease for Ok Tedi Mining Ltd (OTML), Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says. Mr O'Neill has ...

The PNG parliament has pushed through laws giving the government full control of the Ok Tedi Mine and removing BHP Billiton's legal immunity.

PNG has now recorded 163 confirmed cases — low by global standards — but with a record jump of 39 in a day, and up from 11 just three weeks ago. There have also been three deaths.

Prime Minister O'Neill declare Ok Tedi chairman banned from PNG until BHP surrenders cedes assets to government. PNG deposes Aussie chairman of Ok Tedi Mining via entry ban - MINING.COM ...