Watut River #187; PNG amp; Morobe
PNG Mining History. Mining has been occurring in Papua New Guinea for about a century, mainly in specific gold fields such as Misima Island, WauBulolo, Woodlark Island and Mt Kare (amongst others), but also as large scale modern mines since the 1972 development of the Panguna coppergoldsilver mine on Bougainville Island, the mid1980s development of the Ok Tedi coppergoldsilver mine in