Bouganville turning Chinese?

In an atmosphere in which expansionist China is seen to be in everyone’s nightmares, it was only a matter of time before it was to be a likely bidder for that almost prehistoric mining relic, the Bougainville copper mine. By John McIlwraith

23 February 2016
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It is the stuff of almost operatic drama – one of the world’s most profitable mines launched by what is now Rio Tinto, several years of great success then, oblivion.

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