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Rio Tinto agrees to assess environmental and human rights impacts of former Panguna copper mine

Rio Tinto agrees to assess environmental and human rights impacts of former Panguna copper mine

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Rio Tinto PLC (LON:RIO) said it has reached an agreement with local community members to identify and assess the impacts of the former Panguna copper mine in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, which ceased operating in 1989 after a civil war broke out. A joint committee of stakeholders will be formed to oversee a detailed independent assessment of the mine to identify and better understand the actual and potential environmental and human rights impacts of the mine, it said.

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