Volcanoes in the PNG Highlands
Colin Pain It is well known that some mountains in the Papua New Guinea Highlands are extinct volcanoes, most having retained their original shape to some extent. These volcanoes have an important impact on...
Category: Resource Development
Memories of the Ok Tedi Fly River Development Trust
Nigel Robin Ette At the time of independence for Papua New Guinea, Western Province was undeveloped. It was the furthest province to the west, where high mountains take the Fly River to the sea...
Matapui – Part Three
By Ekke Beinssen Parts One and Two of this article were published in previous editions of PNG Kundu. They were taken from an account written by Ekke Beinssen of a 1929 exploratory expedition to...
Panguna Mine—A House with a View
Simon Pentanu PANGUNA on Bougainville Island has many stories to tell. There is a helluva lot to see—enough beauty and destruction to boggle the mind whenever you visit up here. Once upon a time,...
Matapui Part 1: EKKE BEINSSEN
It is late July 1929. A leaden heat, saturated with moisture, broods over Salamaua, the harbour town of the goldfields of New Guinea. I am waiting on the verandah of the only guesthouse. Like...
The Life of a Young Geologist in the 1960s – MALCOLM CASTLE
The mining industry was going through a boom cycle worldwide with companies like US-based Kennecott Corporation investing in exploration in Australia and New Guinea in a big way, and the idea of the adventure...
Airstrip at Lake Kutubu
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The Woods of Papua New Guinea
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Kiaps in the mining industry of PNG
In the March 2023 issue of PNG Kundu Peter Wohlers has a story about former kiaps who worked in the mining industry in PNG. In his story he refers to a list of the...
The Finding of Ok Tedi
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