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Dilemmas of Development
The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine
- 333 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
The Porgera gold mine in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea is technically one of the most sophisticated and successful mines of recent times. In its second year of operations (1992) it was the third largest gold producing mine in the world. Socially, though, the mine has brought a range of massive changes for the local Ipili communi
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Table of contents
- Preliminary
- Tables, figures and maps
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 2. Social change in the PorgeraValley
- 3. The economic impact of the mine
- 4. The landowner relocation programme
- 5. Gardens and wantoks
- 6. The next round of relocation
- 7. Business as unusual
- 8. Porgera-whence and whither?
- 9. Evidence of the 'new competencies'?
- References
- Index
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