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Australia accepts human rights complaint against Rio Tinto over Bougainville – MINING.com
The complaint alleges environmental and human rights violations caused by Rio’s former Panguna mine on the island.
The operation was run by Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper (BCL) and was abandoned in the 1990s due to a civil war that was largely fought over how mine profits should be shared. Some 25 years later, in 2016, Rio handed its shareholding to national and local governments.
But people in Bougainville say that the miner is responsible for the vast quantities of waste left by the copper and gold mine, which are poisoning their water sources, flooding their lands and sacred sites and causing a…
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