Drill and Deal

The course / Risk and jurisdiction

Module 10 of 15, 12 minute read

Risk and jurisdiction

A mine cannot move. For decades it stays exposed to its host state, its neighbours and a geology that always differs a little from the model.

A large yellow electric shovel being serviced in a muddy pit, with workers around it
A shovel being serviced at Panguna, Bougainville, around 1971. The copper mine earned a large share of Papua New Guinea’s exports until a local uprising shut it in 1989. It has stayed closed since.Photo: Robert Owen Winkler, public domain, cropped

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