Wafi-Golpu Feasibility Study – an open letter to Newcrest Mining and Harmony Gold

20 March 2018 Dear Phil and Modise, Re: Updated Feasibility Study for Wafi-Golpu released 19 March 2018 In the interests of fairness, transparency and honesty could you please make the scientific studies that provide the basis for the updated feasibility study available to stakeholder
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In the river or the sea? MMJV considers where to dump its mine waste from Wafi-Golpu

There has been a lot of speculation and much concern from communities about where the tailings and mine waste would go from the proposed Wafi-Golpu mine. The answer is we still don’t know. But communities need to work together to ensure that neither the Watut River or the Morobe Coast
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Who will reap the benefits of mining 100 billion kina of gold from Wafi-Golpu?

Soon, if not already, Newcrest Mining (and Harmony Gold) will be trying to convince communities in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea that there is not much profit to be shared with mining affected communities. They will talk about competitive pressures, commodity cycles, the need to r
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