Decades-old mine in Bougainville exacts devastating human toll: Report

Mongabay
Apr 17, 2020, 10:25 am220 pts
On satellite images, the Panguna mine yawns amid the otherwise green mountain forests of central Bougainville Island in the South Pacific, a silty river valley tracing a jagged path from the mine south and west to Empress Augusta Bay. For 17 years in the 1970s and 1980s, the mine was one of the world’s…

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