Mineral Resources Authority goes live

 THE Mineral Resources Authority has gone live with the first phase of its ambitious mineral tenement management project, Spatial Dimension announced.

Spatial Dimension team leader for the PNG project Charles Young said: “It has been an absolute pleasure working with MRA on this ambitious and important project. 

“The implementation of FlexiCadastre and the OTMCP will greatly improve the transparency in the mining sector and thereby assist in promoting PNG as a mining destination of choice.”

Its next phase will focus on implementing an online transactional mining cadastre portal (OTMCP) that will provide license holders real-time access to their tenement information; allow the payment of fees and the uploading of work reports. 

Subject to amendments to be introduced in the revised Mining Act of 2014, the OTMCP will then be enhanced to allow for online applications, renewals and other business processes.

The project is funded through the World Bank’s second mining sector institutional strengthening technical assistance project. 

The first phase included the implementation of a mineral tenement management system based on the FlexiCadastre framework, the launch of an online web-map providing view only tenement data to the public, as well as the integration of MRA’s library management system into the mineral tenement Management System. 

Phase one was concluded at a workshop attended by government, industry and civil society representatives two months ago.