Miner commits K100,000

THE Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) has committed K100,000 to the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) to be a major “gold” sponsor of the Geoscience, Exploration and Extraction (GEE) conference.
This is the second time that MRA would be staging the two-yearly conference.
The first was held in 2022.
OTML social performance and sustainability general manager Jesse Pile and corporate affairs manager Dexter Wagambie handed over the K100,000 dummy cheque on Friday to the patron of the GEE conferences and MRA managing director Jerry Garry.
Garry thanked OK Tedi for its support of the event.
“The mining and the geoscience community in the country has not had a platform such as the conferences for the last two, three decades, where geoscience and engineering knowledge and ideas could be shared and discussed as learning for the betterment of the industry as well as for the country,” he said.
“We have people who are doing research work in Ok Tedi, in their laboratory to overcome recovery problems, or overcome metallurgical problems.
“There are people working in different parts such as Kainantu.
“They may be looking at different ore types and there maybe new findings. But there is no medium in this country to share those new findings and foster growth within the scientific community, and GEE is now the appropriate avenue to do that.”
Garry urged other industry partners and stakeholders to support the conference.
Pile said OTML, as a state-owned entity, felt that it was only proper to be at the forefront of such conferences.