Fresh violence shuts gold mine
NZPA-Reuter Port Moresby Militant landowners armed with spears and bows and arrows attacked Papua New Guinea’s largest copper and gold mine, badly wounding two men and bringing work to a standstill, mine officials said yesterday. A thousand workers at the Bougainville Island mine, 800 km east of Port Moresby, stopped work on Monday after the raid. It was the latest in a series of attacks since December when some
landowners began a campaign of sabotage against the mine, demanding more than SUSIO billion ($16.2 billion) in compensation. The mine, operated by Australia’s Bougainville Copper, provides 16 per cent of the South Pacific nation’s domestic revenue. A company official, Mr Geoffrey Ewing, said the Bougainville Mining Workers Union had warned it would not allow its members to resume work unless their safety was guaranteed.
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