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The Panguna mine was the catalyst for a decade-long civil war on Bougainville, a now autonomous region of Papua New Guinea. Photograph: Ilya Gridneff/AAP
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Thirty-two years since it fled Bougainville island, Rio Tinto has promised to fund an independent assessment of the ongoing environmental damage caused by its Panguna mine, a move landowners have welcomed as “a start” towards repairing decades of contamination. The mining giant has committed to a multi-million dollar “environmental and human rights impact assessment” of its former copper and gold mine in Panguna...

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