... capital wereless interested in the rumblings of discontent from around the Panguna coppermine than in the problem of securing local consent for the establishment of anew gold mine in the Porgera ... until 1988. The outbreak of the Bougainville rebellionis commonly cited as the key turning point in this policy process. However, for the better part of 1988, the mineral policy makers in the national ... who were themselves living in the pockets of the miningindustry, and could no longer be trusted to apply this wealth to the developmentof the nation as a whole (Filer 1997a, 238). The main target...