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What is this supposed to mean? ". 95% of the shareholder hold less than 1.000 shares each or to say probably a high percentage of the Bougainvillean people are shareholders of Bougainville Copper Ltd."

The Bougainville Parliament has passed its own mining act and becomes law on 1-Apr-2015. New leases will not be issued until 1-Oct-2015. Tax law suits with the PNG govt have been settled so it is unlikely to over-rule the Bougainville govt regarding the resumption of mining. There is now some possibility that the Panguna mine may re-open.27.33.247.187 (talk) 11:53, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I edited some of the wording in this article, specifically the sentence that claimed that "illegal gold mining" was the cause of the environmental damage to the Panguna area. I'd love to hear an explanation of how enough people participated in enough illegal gold mining to rival the damage done by literally cutting out enough earth to create one of the world's largest surface mines, something thats scale can be clearly seen by a look at a Google Maps satellite image. I don't think wikipedia is for corporate propoganda. If you can cite sources outside of company literature, I'd love to see them.--adamatari (talk) 10:52, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article has some odd refs, YouTube SBS and ABC. At least it isn't he self-referencing nonsense that is usually seen in these articles. For example, some greenie writes a nonsense blog and also the Wiki article, both of which x-ref each other. Rio employees were under strict orders not to interfere with the local activities, some of which were fairly brutal. In the early days of mining some expatriates intervened in bashings and the like, and quickly became the object of revenge themselves. It is a story repeated across PNG. It is particularly difficult to employ local villagers in these situations. Rio paid royalties to the PNG govt which also included royalties to the local villages. The PNG govt insisted that there be no direct payments to villagers. Of course the PNG govt did not distribute the royalties to the local villages, and a fair portion of the monies disappeared. That's PNG.27.33.247.187 (talk) 11:46, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]