Rio Tinto urged to fix damage at PNG mine

Updated April 1 2020 - 10:43pm, first published 10:39pm
The abandoned Panguna copper mine on Bougainville.
The abandoned Panguna copper mine on Bougainville.

A human rights group has called on Rio Tinto Ltd to fund a review of health and safety issues it says plagues people near a huge copper mine in Papua New Guinea that the company had a major interest in for nearly two decades.

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