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Bougainville supersized

BOUGAINVILLE Copper has increased targeted resources at the old Panguna copper-gold mine by 70% to 1.8 billion tonnes and lifted contained metal estimates by 50% to 19 million ounces of gold and more than 5 million tonnes of copper.

Blair Price

Bougainville supersized

The increases to the previous 2009 resource estimates come from revisions made last year to the order of magnitude study for re-opening this mine in Papua New Guinea’s Autonomous Region of Bougainville....

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