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 mine had been expected to close in 2010, but in 2013 its life was extended to 2025. That September, the PNG government cancelled PNG SDP’s shares in Ok Tedi and took control of the mine.

A fresh legal dispute has erupted over control of a fund set up to benefit the tens of thousands of villagers affected by mining giant BHP's environmental disaster at the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New ...

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 ...

Australia Network News PNG landowners close to extending Ok Tedi mine Jemima Garrett for Pacific Beat PostedTue 4 Dec 2012 at 5:46am, updatedTue 4 Dec 2012 at 5:55am The Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New ...

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

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 ...

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 told PNG's single House of Parliament on Wednesday the state will ...