medical-gilberta-roland Gilberta Roland is fifteen months old and weighs just eight kilos. The tiny girl was born with a congenitally deformed face but is now in the healing hands of facial surgeons who have worked skilfully to offer her a better future. Along with her mother, Judith Koletin, Gilberta travelled from Lontis Village on Buka Island with […]
Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) has told representatives of Panguna mine-affected landowners that it welcomes direct dialogue between parties as well as collective discussion. The issue was raised at the Joint Panguna Negotiation Coordination Committee (JPNCC) meeting in Buka last Friday. Some landowner representatives said they would like to have regular, informal contact with BCL to […]
roka-leonard A frequent contributor to Bougainville Copper Limited’s (BCL) blog, Bougainville 24, has won the Ok Tedi Mining Award for Book of the Year in the Crocodile Prize, the national literary awards of Papua New Guinea. Leonard Fong Roka won the award for Brokenville, a memoir of his experiences as a youth in Central Bougainville during […]
Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) has announced its support for the Panguna Metals Football Club. The sponsorship will provide up to K20,000 towards the costs of sporting equipment, transportation and accommodation as the team pushes for success in regional and national tournaments. Founded in 1998, Panguna Metals Football Club consists of players from the Panguna tailings […]
The abrupt shut-down of the Panguna mine in 1989 and its closure during the subsequent period of conflict on Bougainville meant there was no opportunity to implement plans for its formal closure. BCL is committed to undertaking appropriate remediation and rehabilitation studies and implementing environmental programs regardless of the future operation of the Panguna mine. […]
Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) will assist with a number of urgent infrastructure projects in Central Bougainville that have been suggested by customary landowners in and around the operating area of the closed mine. In the Special Mine Lease area there is a need for the removal of a small dam at Upper Kurua and culvert […]
Attached is the “Notice of Annual General Meeting” for the Company, included are the proxy forms and explanatory notes. The Annual General meeting details are; Date: Monday 8th April 2013 Time: 2.00PM Venue: Grand Papua Hotel ‐ Mary Street Port Moresby. PAPUA NEW GUINEA The notice of meeting, proxies, explanatory notes and annual report were […]
Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) has made a K1,000 donation to the Bougainville Youth Foundation (BYF) to assist with its annual awareness campaign. BYF is an organisation of Madang-based Bougainvillean students, who seek to utilise their own education for the betterment of the autonomous region. Each year the BYF members conduct a travelling education campaign to […]