Celebrating the beauty of the Environment with Ramu NiCo

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All educational institutions in and around Madang were invited to join Ramu NiCo Management Ltd which is a subsidiary of the state owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) to celebrate the World Environment Day 2012 in style.

Divine Word University, Tusbab Secondary School, Madang Teachers College and other schools made their way across town to the company’s headquarters next to the Mobil fuel station.

We attended a short presentation about what the company was doing. All of us asked questions about the mine and its impact on the environment.

The presentation outlined how the Chinese miners will dig one part of the mineral rich land and after extracting the minerals fill it back up.

After that process they will reforest the portion and move on to another allocated portion.

Unlike Copper or Gold the Nickel and Cobalt is just above the soil. Thus, there is no need to dig an underground or open pit mine.

They talked about the pipeline and concluded with the Deep Sea Tailing placement system in the Basamuk Bay area.

Here are the pictures from that special event. I will let the pictures do the talking from here on.

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