Panguna

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NASA Landsat image of Panguna, shoing tailings runoff.
NASA Landsat image of Panguna, shoing tailings runoff.

Panguna is a town and a (now decommissioned) copper mine on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. By the end of its operations on May 15, 1989 it was the largest open-cut mine in the world; it was also a major catalyst in the unrest in Bougainville in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Coordinates: 6°15′S, 155°30′E


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