Trading Bougainville Copper (ADRs) 867948
3:12 pm today
The Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has warned Bougainville's John Momis not to play politics over Bougainville Copper Limited shares.
Mr O'Neill sparked fury in President Momis last week by handing the national government's shares in BCL to landowners on Bougainville rather than to the Autonomous Bougainville Government.
Mr Momis said this threatened the peace process and he said his government could well pull BCL's exploration licence, which would make the shares worthless.
Mr O'Neill said Mr Momis was trying to manipulate the peace process for political gain.
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill (left) and the Bougainville President, John Momis (right)
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill (left) and the Bougainville President, John Momis (right) Photo: AFP/RNZI
He said the ABG was very welcome to participate in the consultation process with the landowners, but the shares would go to the people who had a direct stake in the mine.
Mr O'Neill said the views of the National Executive Council were final.
He said the government was committed to advancing the peace process, and not play petty politics that could only undermine peace.
Mr O'Neill said he gave the shares to the landowners so that the ABG could not have outright control of the mine.
He said this was better for transparency, and ensured that shares were in the hands of the traditional people to whom they belonged.
Miringtoro slams Momis over Rio share transfer reaction
.....I recommend that the President cede control of Bougainville to someone who has the energy, commitment and vision to move Bougainville forward instead of wasting time trying to kick up a dead horse. I see nothing wrong with building wealth for the landowners who can then contribute meaningfully to Bougainville’s economy instead of them being spectators all the time.
Our people are tired of vague idealism by those who live in utopia that has brought no tangible benefits to us but continued exploitation by foreigners
Ich kann dies wirklich nicht verstehen, dass sich Momis auf Stur stellt.
Momis wird bestimmt nicht wiedergewählt.
Vielleicht kommt Tanis wieder ran?
Meekamuis äußern sich zum 1 Mal positiv.
Das macht Hoffnung!
berechtigt ist. Das scheint einer der Hauptgruende fuer den Stillstand.
Wie soll die Mine in Betrieb gehen?
BOC hat nicht genug Geld. Durch eine Kapitalerhöhung kommt nicht genug Geld zusammen.
Er fremder Investor? Wie soll das gehen?
Vielleicht verkaufen die Landowners auch einfach nur Aktien Stück für Stück für 0,18 AUD und schürfen illegal weiter.
Hier müsste eine Verkaufssperre für die Aktien eingebaut werden, zumindest für eine Gewisse Zeit oder an gewisse Bedingungen geknpüft werden.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/...le-landowners-to-meet-momis
Stellt euch mal vor, dass kommt in den Nachrichten, extreme Stückzahlen werden gekauft und der Kurs steigt innerhalb von Tagen um mehrere hundert Prozent.
Aber weder kann ich mir eine schnelle Einigung zwischen den Beteiligten vorstellen noch glaube ich, dass im Anschluss an einer Einigung eine zeitnahe Finanzierung gesichert werden kann. Und wenn, dann bin ich gespannt, wie unsere Anteile verwässert werden.
Ok, diese Einschätzung liest sich jetzt negativer/pessimistischer als ich bin. Und ja, bei positivem Newsfluss wird der Kurs innerhalb kürzester Zeit prozentual nach oben katapultiert werden, aber Strohfeuer hatten wir im Laufe der vergangenen zahlreichen Jahre immer wieder. Mal sehen, ob sich das nächste Strohfeuer dann endlich mal zu einem wahren "Flächenbrand" entwickelt und unsere wunderschöne Mine zum Vorteil von uns allen wieder in Betrieb gehen wird.
Auf die paar Jahre .... ;)
Die Frage ist nur, wer den Betrieb übernehmen soll?
Wer soll das alles leiten und woher sollen die Fachkräfte kommen?
http://www.worldbank.org/projects/procurement/...p;id=OP00018914&
.....ich sehe es so :
alles was dazu führt das sich nachhaltig die Motivation in Bezug auf mining durch BCL in Panguna ändert = gut und sollte unterstützt werden.
...alles was dazu führt das sich zur aktuellen Einstellung auf Bougainville bzgl. mining nichts
ändert = nicht gut, sondern = ausgesprochen schlecht.
Nur meine Meinung. ;-)))))))
Also
die innerpolitischen Verhältnisse sind stabiler
Rio Tinto hat das Handtuch geschmissen, der Erzfeind und Verursacher des Krieges bildet keinen neuen Ansatz fuer Feindseligkeiten.
Die Landeigner werden befriedigt, haben dadurch hohes Interesse an der Wiedereröffnung
Was noch bleibt ist Gier von Momis zu zuegeln. Dafuer werden die Landeigner sorgen.
Dann fehlt nur noch ein Investor.
Schreibt bitte, wenn ich was vergessen habe.
Vielleicht traut Momis den Landeignern nicht zu, dass die zusammenarbeiten wollen und eher die Wiedereröffnung blockieren könnten - aber danach sieht es im Moment nicht aus.
Oder Momis möchte einfache Handhabe haben, wenn es z.B. um die Verflüssigung der BOC Beteiligungen oder den Verkauf der Bohrergebnisse oder den Einsatz von Subunternehmern gehen würde.
Oder Momis möchte einfach nur, dass die Regierung sich vollumfänglich zum Besten Wohl der Bevölkerung insgesamt und der Landeigner im Besonderem, den Bedürfnissen annehmen kann. Ohne eine beschlussfähige Mehrheit finden zu müssen, wären dann Entscheidungen schon leichter umzusetzen. Eine Beteiligung von BCL an - ich nenn es mal "Soziale Projekte" wäre schon leichter herbeizuführen.
Und was denkt sich ONeill? Der hat sich doch auch Gedanken gemacht, warum er genau diese Entscheidung getroffen hat. Welchen Vorteil hat er bzw. PNG aus dieser Entscheidung?
http://210.193.160.7/netwealth2/depth/boc
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What is stopping Papua New Guinea’s Panguna mine from re-opening?
by ramunickel
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The Autonomous Bougainville Government wants to put the operation of the giant Panguna copper mine out to international tender as soon as possible, President John Momis tells Business Advantage PNG. But key considerations—including the exploration licence, the equity structure, landowner rights and dividends and the rehabilitation of the mine—must be decided first.
Kevin McQuillan| Business Advantage PNG | 24 August 2016
Re-opening the Panguna copper mine is potentially extremely lucrative for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. The mine was closed in 1989 at the start of a two-year civil war—prompted by landowner concerns over the damage to the local environment and the returns they were receiving.
The cost of rehabilitating the mine was estimated in 2014 to be about A$6 billion (K13.72 billion), and revenues for the life of the mine was estimated to be $A75 billion (K177 billion).
During the period it operated, 1972–1989, Panguna provided more than 45 per cent of PNG’s national export revenue, and was the biggest single contributor to government coffers.
Shareholding
But the first consideration in re-opening the mine is the shareholding says John Momis, the President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG).
He tells Business Advantage PNG this became an issue after Rio Tinto walked away in June, dividing its shareholding in Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL) equally between the ABG and the national government.
This week, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill reportedly said the government would give its shares to landowners, drawing the ire of Momis, who believes the ABG should be given those shares, giving it a majority shareholding.
‘I think in general the landowners support the ABG’s option that the shares should be given to the ABG to be distributed to the landowners under our own mining law,’ he says.
O’Neill has not yet said which of the nine landowner groups would be given the national government’s 17 per cent shares in BCL, nor how those shares would be distributed.
Share dilution
Momis says while the majority of Bougainville landowners support the ABG being given the 17 per cent shareholding, a minority support O’Neill. Momis says they are being ‘misled’.
‘When we invite a new developer, they will come with technology and capital and, of course, they will also want [a high level of] shareholding which means the current shareholders will have their shares diluted very much.’
Momis says the amount of shareholding an operator would have is ‘something we would have to negotiate with them.’
‘But what we do know is that they will want equity and not just a small amount because they will be very powerful and the current shareholders will have their share diluted—particularly the 17 per cent if it goes to landowners.
‘The landowners may end up with nothing.
‘Under our proposal, our mining law says—it is a legal requirement—that the landowners (receive) five per cent free carry in a fully developed mine.’
‘If the mine starts, it might expand and extend its operations into other areas, which would entail having more landowners. If the ABG held the shareholding it would take care of new landowners.’
Investment vehicle
Last month, the ABG issued a ‘show cause’ notice to BCL, as to why its exploration licence over Panguna should not be rescinded, after Rio ended its management agreement with BCL. Momis says the ABG has ‘not decided yet’ whether to rescind the licence.
At the moment, BCL’s major asset is its mining data, which Momis agrees would be ‘useless if we took away the exploration licence’.
‘If we don’t have majority (ownership) then it would put us in a situation where we could not agree on access to the data and that doesn’t help us.
‘That’s why we are saying a win-win deal would be to accept our proposal and then allow BCL to unblock and make use of the data.’
Rehabilitation
Momis estimates it would take ‘something like K20 billion to reopen the mine.’ The process could take five years. An incoming mine operator may need to factor in this rehabilitation cost should proposed legal action against Rio to force it to pay for a clean up fail.
Momis says the legal action is the result of Rio refusing ‘to accept any responsibility for the legacy issues, such as environmental damage and the social disruption, health consequences’.
ramunickel | August 25, 2016 at 12:51 pm | Tags: ABG, Bougainville, Environmental damage, John Momis, Landholders, Panguna, Papua New Guinea, Peter O'Neill, Rio Tinto | Categories: Financial returns, Mine construction, Papua New Guinea | URL: http://wp.me/pMvf7-4VG
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