Goldridge to support local communities

The owner of the Solomon Island Gold Ridge mine, Australian Solomon Gold, says it will support local communities with a social infrastructure package of about 10-million Solomon Islands dollars.

The owner of the Solomon Island Gold Ridge mine, Australian Solomon Gold, says it will support local communities with a social infrastructure package of about 10-million Solomon Islands dollars.

The mine closed down in 2000 amid the ethnic tension on Guadalcanal but the company hopes to re-open the site by the end of 2007.

Its managing director, Mike Christies, says the social infrastructure package is part of a final agreement signed with landowners last week.

Mr Christie says the agreement also involves a compensation and re-location package.

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