This article is about the Ok Tedi Mine. For the River, see Ok Tedi River.  Image of Mount Fubilan, Finalbin and Tabubil The Ok Tedi Mine is located near the headwaters of the Ok Tedi River, in the Star Mountains Rural LLG of the North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. This article is about the Ok Tedi River. ...
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This article is about the Ok Tedi River. ...
The North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea is the northernmost, smallest, and arguably the most remote of the three districts of the province. ...
Location of Western Province in Papua New Guinea Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian province of Papua. ...
The mine is operated by Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) which is majority owned by the PNG Sustainable Development Program Limited (PNGSDPL). Prior to 2002, it was majority owned by BHP Billiton—the largest mining company in the world since a merger in 2001, with a market capitalization of over US$150Billion in 2007.[1] OTML Logo Ok Tedi Mining Limited is a Company from Papua New Guinea that administers the Ok Tedi Mine in the northern part of the Western Province. ...
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Located in a remote area of PNG, above 2,000 m (6,600 ft) on Mount Fubilan, in a region of high rainfall and frequent earthquakes, mine development posed serious challenges.[2] The town of Tabubil was built to serve the mining operation. Tabubil aerial photograph, looking south over the town. ...
History Mount Fubilan before mining operations was a copper mountain with a gold cap.
Exploratory drilling in the area began in the 1970s, and was run by the Kennecott Copper Corporation. Kennecott Copper Corporation had its start when Enos A. Wall realized the potential of copper deposits in Bingham Canyon in Utah in 1887 and acquired claims to the land. ...
In the early 80s, BHP Biliton secured a mining lease and in 1984, began exploiting a gold cap on the mountain using cyanide extraction procedures. After the gold deposit was depleted, a much larger copper deposit was targeted underneath. At that time, this deposit was believed to be the largest copper deposit in the world.[3] BHP entered into a partnership with the Papua New Guinea government and a Canadian copmpany, Inmet Mining Corporation, to mine the copper deposit, although BHP maintained a majority share in the mine. For other uses, see Copper (disambiguation). ...
Around 20 years after the beginning of mining operations, majority share ownership turned into the hands of the PNG Sustainable Development Program, in the wake of the Ok Tedi Environmental Disaster. Ok Tedi tailings in the Fly River The Ok Tedi Environmental Disaster is a term used to describe the ongoing effect of mining on the environment near the Ok Tedi River in Papua New Guinea, particularly the dumping of tailings into the river itself. ...
All mining operations at Fubilan have had their headquarters based at Tabubil. Tabubil aerial photograph, looking south over the town. ...
Infrastructure As a substantial economic entity in Papua New Guinea and the Western Province, accounting for over half of the entire province's economy[4] and 25.7% of the country's entire export earnings[5], the mine has been responsible for a large amount of the infrastructure.
The Mine The mine works as an open cut operation. The mountain of Fubilan has been reduced to a deep pit in the ground.
By 31 December 2004, 8,896,577 tonnes of copper concentrate (containing 2,853,265 tonnes of copper metal and 7,035,477 ounces of gold metal) had been mined. In addition, between 1985 and 1990, 47.642 tonnes (1,680,553 ounces) of gold bullion was produced.[6] is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Mill There is a mill adjacent to the mine that transforms the raw material mined into copper concentrate slurry. The mill operates two ball mills and one sag mill. Copper concentrate is produced as slurry and piped 137km along the Kiunga-Tabubil Highway to Kiunga, the main port of the district, where it is shipped via river barge along the Fly River. The Fly (named after a British naval ship) is the longest river of the island of New Guinea. ...
Ok Menga The mine is powered by a hydroelectric power facility at Ok Menga, which is a tributary of the Ok Tedi river near Tabubil. This article is about the Ok Tedi River. ...
Kiunga-Tabubil Highway -
The Kiunga-Tabubil Highway is maintained by Ok Tedi Mining Limited, as the mine is the greatest beneficiary of the road. The highway, for the most part, runs parallel with the Ok Tedi River. Parts of the highway are often consumed by the river and need to be rebuilt. The cost of maintaining this road is K1.5 million a year. The copper slurry pipeline to Kiunga from the mine runs along the full length of this road. OTML Logo Ok Tedi Mining Limited is a Company from Papua New Guinea that administers the Ok Tedi Mine in the northern part of the Western Province. ...
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The kina (currency code PGK) is the currency of Papua New Guinea. ...
A slurry is in general a thick suspension of solids in a liquid and may be: Look up slurry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Tabubil -
Tabubil is a township in the North Fly District of Western Province, Papua New Guinea, about 20km south along the Kiunga-Tabubil Highway from the minesite.[7] The town, including the adjoining relocated village of Wangabin and the industrial area of Laytown, is the largest settlement in the province.[8] Although the provincial capital, Daru, is almost the same size.[9] Tabubil aerial photograph, looking south over the town. ...
The North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea is the northernmost, smallest, and arguably the most remote of the three districts of the province. ...
Western Province, is a province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering Irian Jaya. ...
Daru is the name of an island in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, the town on the island goes by the same name and is the capital of the Province. ...
The town was established primarily to serve the Ok Tedi Mine. The mine headquarters are located in a building called the White House, which is about 500 metres south of Tabubil International School, and about 300 metres west of the Cloudlands hotel.
The mine has a backup diesel generating power facility at Tabubil.
Kiunga -
Kiunga is the port town that services the mine on the Fly River. The township, which had a population of 8,300 in the year 2000 census, is the terminus of the Kiunga-Tabubil Highway, and the copper concentrate slurry pipeline, about 140km by road from the minesite.[7] The Fly (named after a British naval ship) is the longest river of the island of New Guinea. ...
Local industry rests on a cornerstone of freight and haulage, particularly servicing the mine and the town of Tabubil. The town is the headquarters of the North Fly District. The North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea is the northernmost, smallest, and arguably the most remote of the three districts of the province. ...
Environmental impact -
In 1999, BHP reported that the project was the cause of "major environmental damage".[10] The mine operators discharge 80 million tons of contaminated tailings, overburden and mine-induced erosion into the river system each year.[11] Ok Tedi tailings in the Fly River The Ok Tedi Environmental Disaster is a term used to describe the ongoing effect of mining on the environment near the Ok Tedi River in Papua New Guinea, particularly the dumping of tailings into the river itself. ...
Tailings (also known as slickens[1]) are the waste left over[2] after removing the gangue from ore. ...
Overburden is the term used in mining to describe material that lies above the area of economic interest. ...
The discharge caused widespread and diverse harm, both environmentally and socially, to the 50,000 people who live in the 120 villages downstream of the mine.[12] Chemicals from the tailings killed or contaminated fish, which subsequently caused harm to all animal species that live in the area as well as the indigenous people. The dumping changed the riverbed, causing a relatively deep and slow river to become shallower and develop rapids thereby disrupting indigenous transportation routes. Flooding caused by the raised riverbed left a thick layer of contaminated mud on the flood plain the plantations of taro, bananas and sago palm that are the staples of the local diet.
About 1300 square kilometers were damaged in this way. Although the concentration of copper in the water is about 30 times above the standard level, it is still below the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards. For other meanings of the acronym WHO, see WHO (disambiguation) WHO flag Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Health Organization (WHO) is an agency of the United Nations, acting as a coordinating authority on international public health. ...
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