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Ok Tedi mine

Ok Tedi mine, Papua New Guinea, mining copper, gold.

Why Ok Tedi mine is famous

Wikidata describes it as a Papua New Guinean copper and gold mine. Dates, tailings history and ownership changes were found only on pages that could not be opened (archived or blocked); see NOTES.md.1

Timeline

  1. February 2002 (suit filed 1994, settlement 1996)BHP leaves Ok Tedi after river damage claims2

What kind of deposit

Porphyry copper

Ok Tedi mine today

Where copper is mined todayWhere gold is mined todayMining in Papua New Guinea

Where next

Mines

ExamplesPanguna mineTwo Papua New Guinea copper and gold mines tied to river damage and conflict.3

Events

Led toBHP leaves Ok Tedi after river damage claimsRead what happened near Ok Tedi mine: BHP leaves Ok Tedi after river damage claims.1

Deposit types

An example ofPorphyry copperOk Tedi mine belongs to the porphyry copper family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q7081683 (Ok Tedi Mine) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. BHP lawsuit re Papua New Guinea (Ok Tedi) Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
  3. Annual report 2025 Bougainville Copper Limited
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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