West Papua hosts one of the world's largest copper and gold mines, the Grasberg mine in which US based Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold has a majority stake. Despite this source of wealth ...

Along the small creeks and tributaries of the Fly River in western Papua New Guinea, a mining company dipped their nets into the water to survey fish species. Every five years, the environmental ...

Credit: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images Since 1967 PT Freeport has been mining copper and gold in Mimika, West Papua and dumping its tailings waste in several rivers in the Mimika Regency area.

Bougainville Copper believes the cost of restarting its Panguna copper mine in Papua New Guinea has escalated because of the destruction of much of the equipment left on Bougainville Island after ...

The Indonesian government’s proposal to grant amnesty to pro-independence rebels in West Papua has stirred scepticism as the administration of new President Prabowo Subianto seeks to deal with the ...