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No solution was found since the PNG Government and locals are trying to extend the mine life. The people are going to be forced to leave because local crops are going to be polluted and the water quality will drop.
50,000 people were affected in 120 villages.
Ok Tedi was supposed to close in 2013 but the PNG Government and local community extended the mine life and the mine continues to spill waste.
The discharge cotaminated the river and all the fish that are living in the river. This had an effect on the animals that lived in the area as well as the Indigenous people. It changed the deep and slow to a shallow and rapid moving river. This disrupted th e Indigenous peoples transportation routes. The flooding contaminated the mud and the local farms.
This was caused by the collapse of the Ok Tedi tallings dan system and the lack of a proper waste retention facility. To blame is the Ok Tedi Mining Limited and the BHP Billiton.
Benefits:
- Cheaper
-Recover more of the resources
-Safer
-Can use large scale mining equipment
Faults:
-High visability
-Large scale surface disturbance
-Limited economic depth to which the mining can take place
Open-pit mining
Open-pit mining extracts minerals or rocks from the crust through their removal from an open-pit or borrow.
The mine starts as a open cut mining operation but has now been reduced to a deep pit. This process starts as a small hole but it increases in size and depth until the resource is exhausted.
Location: Papua New Guinea near the Ok Tedi River in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
Resources: Mined copper and gold
Products that copper was used to make was technology, coins, wires, and pipes.
Gold was used for jewelry, awards, technology, and electronics.
By: Andy Hong Jo and Michael Messmer