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Rio Tinto reaches deal with Bougainville community to assess copper mine impact

FILE PHOTO: The Panguna mine is seen in Bougainville, Paua New Guinea, in this Planet Labs satellite photo received by Reuters September 26, 2017. Trevor Hammond/Planet Labs/Handout via REUTERS

Rio Tinto said on Wednesday it had reached an agreement with stakeholders of the Bougainville community to look into the potential environmental impact and human rights breaches at a copper mine in Papua New Guinea it ran decades ago.

(Reporting by Nikhil Kurian Nainan in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath)

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