Members of BCL’s engagement team visited Pokpok Island off Arawa earlier this month to provide much needed support for the rural healthcare facility attached to the local Aid Post. The company assisted with the purchase of drugs and medicines for use in the day-to-day operation of the facility. The Pokpok Aid Post provides health services […]
Bougainville Copper was pleased to participate in the first roundtable meeting to address findings from the Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment (PMLIA) in Port Moresby last week. The roundtable, which also comprises the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) and Rio Tinto, is a joint undertaking that follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding last November. […]
Bougainville Copper Foundation Limited (“BCF”) takes this opportunity to inform all those who responded to our announcement on our Bougainville Copper Ltd Facebook page in November 2024 regarding Bougainville Copper Foundation Scholarships to Education Institutions in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and in Papua New Guinea. In total, 109 applications were received and considered.In considering […]
The redevelopment of the Panguna mine provides a unique opportunity to catapult Bougainville’s economy forward in a way that no other project can. This was a key message delivered by BCL’s new CEO Johnny Auna to the ABG’s Nation Building Framework Workshop in Buka last Tuesday (28 January). The workshop, attended by ABG President Ishmael […]
Bougainville Copper is pleased to appoint Mr Johnny Patterson Auna as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mr Auna, who hails from Laguai Village, Buin in South Bougainville, joined BCL in March 2024 as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary. He has also been serving in the role of Acting CEO since July 2024, following the unfortunate […]
BCL was delighted to support Arawa FootBall Association (AFA) with its program of local festive activities to mark Christmas and the New Year period. These included visits and gift-giving of food and toiletries to nursing staff and patients at Arawa District Hospital, as well as inmates at the Arawa police cells on Sunday (5 January). […]
BCL’s team in Bougainville, including our Village Liaison Officers (pictured at their recent end of year meeting), have done invaluable work during 2024 in building relations on the ground. Community Relations Coordinator, Elly Sawa, says the granting of a five-year extension of BCL’s EL01 (exploration licence) for the Panguna project area and the signing of […]
Over the past week our team members visited several schools in the Panguna and Buka areas, to present student prizes, including lap-tops and phones. At Sohano Primary School, BCL’s Alphonse Tapit had the pleasure of presenting two prizes to Nyla Kolotein, who is not only the school’s grade 8 dux, but also the top student […]
It was a day of optimism and progress at the Panguna Catholic Church yesterday (6 November) with more than 300 customary landowners coming together for the signing of a Land Access and Compensation Agreement (LACA) with BCL. The LACA enshrines the rights of landowners in relation to the provision of access for work under BCL’s […]
It has been a busy period for our team in Bougainville with a series of engagements with key stakeholders in Arawa as part of our pre-feasibility activities under our (EL01) exploration licence for the Panguna project area. There were a series of constructive meetings and workshops in October involving representatives of the Panguna Landowners Interim […]