PNG Mining is an industry-leading online news resource focused on the Papua New Guinea resources sector. As the premier source of information for the latest industry updates in the Pacific nation, PNG Mining keeps readers up to date on news, trends and insights, and is the official resource of the PNG Industrial and Mining Resources …

To be built on the Frieda river, a tributary to the Sepik in the north of New Guinea island, it is forecast to yield gold, silver and copper worth an estimated US$1.5bn a year for more than 30 years.

The first gold pour was on 20 September 1990 and the mine was officially opened by the then Prime Minister of PNG, Rabbie Namaliu on 20 October 1990. The Porgera Gold Mine in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, is owned by the Porgera Joint Venture (PJV). It is operated by Barrick (Niugini) Limited which owns 95 percent participating interest in PJV.

1997. Lihir is one of the world's largest producing gold mines. It creates economic value for PNG and local communities, including direct revenues from operations, investments in public infrastructure and services, support of local suppliers and a range of indirect economic benefits. About 5,100 people are employed at Lihir, which has a ...

The Simberi gold mine is located on the Simberi Island in the Tabar Islands Group, New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The mine lies approximately 60km north-west of the Lihir Gold Project, which is one of the top ten biggest gold mines in the world. Commercial production at the Simberi open-pit mine commenced in 2008.

Newcrest Mining. Lihir Project. The Lihir Project is located on Lihir Island in PNG. It is currently a producing operation and produced 932,784 ounces of gold in 2019. The Lihir mine's total ...

Project plans also call for the construction of a 325-km (202-mi) pipeline to shuttle the copper- and gold-containing slurry from the mine to the port city of Vanimo on Papua New Guinea's ...

Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea (Image courtesy of Barrick Gold) Canada's Barrick Gold's (TSX, NYSE:ABX), the world's No.1 producer of the precious metal, has sold 50% of its ...

Gold production in Papua New Guinea and major projects. According to GlobalData, Papua New Guinea is the world's eighteenth-largest producer of gold in 2022, with output up by 4% on 2021. Over the five years to 2021, production from Papua New Guinea decreased by a CAGR of 7.57% and is expected to rise by a CAGR of 11% …

What we do. The Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) is a government institution established to regulate, grow and sustainably manage the mining (minerals) industry to maximize mineral export revenue for Papua New Guinea. It is the custodian of over 15,000 volumes of exploration reports and over 900,000 data points of mineral data.

Wafi-Golpu gold project. The project is located 65 km south-west of Lae, in the Morobe province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Wafi-Golpu Joint Venture (WGJV), comprising Harmony Gold and Newcrest ...

The Woodlark gold project is an open-pit mine being developed on Woodlark Island in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Environmental approval for the gold project was granted in 2014, and the definitive feasibility study (DFS) was completed in November 2018. The project is expected to produce 967,117oz of …

The Porgera Joint Venture is an open pit and underground gold mine located at an altitude of 2,200-2,600 meters in the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea, about 600 kilometers north-west of Port Moresby. ... for ownership of Porgera to be held in a new joint venture owned 51% by Papua New Guinea ("PNG") stakeholders and 49% by Barrick ...

Activists from Papua New Guinea, where a controversial gold mine is inching toward reopening, have joined a campaign of global protests ahead of the annual general meeting of Canada-based Barrick ...

Porgera is the second-largest gold mine in Papua New Guinea. Zijin holds a 24.5% interest in the project through Barrick Niugini Limited ("BNL"). According to BNL's latest plan, the Porgera Gold Mine, with 417 tonnes of gold resources, is expected to produce an average of 21 tonnes of gold per annum after it restarts and reaches nameplate ...

Lihir creates economic value for Papua New Guinea and local communities, including direct revenues from operations, investments in public infrastructure and services, support of local suppliers and a range of indirect economic benefits. Roughly 5,100 people are employed at Lihir, which has a combination of residential and fly-in-fly-out personnel.

In Papua New Guinea (PNG), mining has been surrounded by controversy related to its environmental and social impacts for several decades. In this context, the research reported herein is an investigation of the way in which mining has impacted on poverty in two large mining regions at Ok Tedi and Porgera. We surveyed 609 …

In a valley in Papua New Guinea's highlands lies a sprawling mine pit that is filled with untold riches. The enormous open cut and underground mine was shut down four years ago over a dramatic ...

"We intend to partner with all key stakeholders to make Porgera a world-class, long-life gold mine," he said. About Porgera. The Porgera Joint Venture is an open pit and underground gold mine located at an altitude of 2,200-2,600 metres in the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea, about 600 kilometres north-west of Port Moresby.

1. Introduction. There is no perhaps other country in the world that has such a complex story to tell about mining than Papua New Guinea (PNG) (e.g. Connell, 1997) – despite the often geologically young nature of PNG mineral deposits and an abundance of mineral and other natural resources, it remains contentious as to whether mining's …

Lihir. Ownership. 100% Newcrest. Metals. Gold. Location. Niolam Island, 900 kilometres from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Most of the ore that Lihir produces is refractory and treated using pressure oxidation …

Papua New Guinea's mining sector is one of the nation's strongest industries. Mining accounted for more than 10 per cent of GDP in 2019 and the sector was responsible for 35 per cent of the country's export revenues. Principal mineral exports were gold, copper, nickel and cobalt. Total mineral export, including LNG and condensate ...

Frieda River - Gold. Yandear - Cupper. Wafi -Golpu - Gold and Cupper. Mt Kare - Gold. Imwauna - Gold. Mining Companies in PNG. PNG has a portfolio of mining projects spread across the country. The large projects dominate: Barrick Gold's Porgera gold mine, Ok Tedi copper mine, Newcrest's Lihir gold mine, and most recently, Newcrest …

In Papua New Guinea (PNG), the mining industry is by far the largest source of revenue for the country. It is also the second largest employer and a significant contributor to the development of rural infrastructure. ... boosted by Freeport's 1988 discovery of the giant Grasberg gold mining site in Papua Province. Indonesia's laws give more ...

Gold recovery in a sluice box: Papua New Guinea Practice, Chemistry in the service of Papua New Guinea, (Edited P Bladon). Goroka, PNG: (12-14 September) Papua New Guinea Institute of Chemistry ...

Papua New Guinea Miningand Petroleum Conference 2022. 5 -7 December 2022. Presentation. Fact sheet. Animation. Papua New Guinea is a under-explored treasure trove, and home to Harmony's …

The Ok Tedi copper-gold mine in Western Province, Papua New Guinea, is situated in the western part of the Ok Tedi Complex where monzodiorite to quartz monzonite intrusions are associated with porphyry- …

Recent census data shows Papua's GDP per capita at $3,510, compared to the Indonesian average of $2,452. Yet Papua has the highest poverty rate in the country, nearly three times the national ...

Newcrest Mining Limited and Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited each own 50% of the Wafi-Golpu Project through the Wafi-Golpu Joint Venture. The Wafi-Golpu Project is an advanced exploration project located in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea, 65 kilometres south-west of Lae City.