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HIDDEN TREASURE

Ok Tedi plants one for

World Environment Day

team from Ok Tedi Mining Ltd (OTML) recently planted “Our rehabilitation team has done an excellent job over the
A 1,500 trees as part of this year’s World Environment years and to see everyone take time off from their busy
Day. schedules to help mark this important day by planting 1,500
OTML’s rehabilitation team, with the support of two trees is a significant milestone in itself.”
contractor companies, LOTIC Bige Ltd and Dredeco PNG, The Bige dredging operations are about 100km downstream
commemorated World Environment Day by planting trees from the mine. It was established in 1997 to dredge 10
on 3ha of land at Ok Tedi’s Bige dredging site. million cubic metres of sediments annually from the Ok Tedi
OTML Bige operations superintendent for technical services River and place it on engineered stockpiles on the east and
Iga Au said the initiative was the first of its kind. west banks of the river.
“Since the Bige operations began in 1997, we have
rehabilitated 131ha of land by planting 161,242 different
species of trees,” Au said.

INDEX

Aeris 24 De Grey 4, 7, 30, 48 Kalamazoo 6-7, 31 Ramelius 6, 21
Alkane 18-23 Endeavour 40 Kingston 46-47 Resolute 37-38, 40
AngloGold 32, 40 Evolution 24-25 Kirkland Lake 7 Rio Tinto 38
Apollo 28-29 Exore 29, 38 Kopore 38 Rox 4, 12
Artemis 30 Roxgold 46
Ausmex 49 Fosterville South 7 Leviathan 7
Australian Strategic 20 Sandfire 37-38, 43
Auteco 47 GBM 31 Magnetic 46 Saracen 24
Genesis 21 Middle Island 46 Shandong 42
B2Gold 40 Gold Fields 10, 42, 48-49 Miramar 32 Silver Lake 21, 26, 30, 49
Barrick 40 Golden State 44 Musgrave 4 Sky 14
Bellevue 4 Great Northern 48
Black Cat 26 Great Panther 47 Newmont 25 Venus 12
Nordgold 42
Calidus 21 Hawkstone 44 Northern Star 6, 24, 34, 39 White Rock 43
Capricorn 48 Horizon 30 Novo 7, 30-31, 43
Cardinal 42 Yandal 34
Challenger 47 Jervois 44 Pantoro 10
Perseus 29, 37-38

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