28 June 2021

The Largest Gold And Copper Deposit In The World

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  The gigantic FREEPORT Erzberg job in Irian Jaya. I was still with BECHTEL on Bougainville when they b...
12 June 2021

Not Bougainville but this soundless 1957 footage is worth a look

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11 June 2021

Gerardus Mercator has a lot to answer for

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  New Guinea is the world's second-largest island, and with an area of 785,753 km², the largest island in the S...

Tales of Papua New Guinea

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Christopher J. Eastoe   Chris Eastoe has written this engaging story of his short six-week stint on Bougainville...
21 May 2021

Adam Constanza's visit to Panguna in 2018

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In 2018, after a couple of years living in nearby Arawa, Adam Constanza had an opportunity to visit and explore Panguna mine, which ...
16 March 2021

Pity the mine didn't last that long!

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A Canadian reader, who toughed it out on Bougainville during the early construction days, on TUE 16 emailed this photo of a "SEIKO...
15 March 2021

10,000 blokes, 10 single women

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There was none of that "sophisticated, high living" in Camp 1 or Camp 3 at Panguna, or in Camp 6 down the coast, or in any othe...
9 March 2021

Flashback

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    P erhaps it is the result of having read Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke and Joseph Conrad at an impressionable age, but th...
20 February 2021

Another top story

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  I t's probably too much of a stretch to suggest that they waited with the Bougainville Copper Project until the ring-tab beer c...
31 January 2021

Bob Jackson did a good job ...

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Bob Jackson did a tremendous job in joining up a lot of clippings into a "documentary" of his - of our - "Golden Years...