Rio may look to re-enter PNG: analyst

WITH the resumption of any mining and exploration activity on Bougainville remaining in limbo, Rio Tinto may be looking to re-enter PNG to take advantage of the country’s geological prospectivity as well as current record highs being experienced by commodity prices, a leading analyst said.

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“It is in a part of the world that does have the potential to host world-class deposits and I think that is what of interest to companies of that size and also we have seen the Chinese becoming very

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