Alluvial mining is legal and officially encouraged in Papua New Guinea. Mining licences are not required if people extract minerals on their own land by non-mechanical means. Estimates of the ...

Just months after the grand reopening of the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea's government has ... no surprise to landowner groups, with alluvial mining taking place at the enormous pit and ...

Mr Catsoulis said there were complex local relationships in PNG for holding alluvial mining leases. “In relation to our mining lease over the Sowom River the tenure was granted to our local ...