Ramu NiCo Mine in Madang is pleased to have done its share of developments since 2006 when it began its operation.

Public relations officer Dorothy Mark told students from schools in Port Moresby who visited the Ramu NiCo booth on 08 July, 2025 during the PNGCORE Golden Exhibition at the Apec Haus at Ela Beach in Port Moresby.

Ms Mark received students at her employer’s booth said Ramu NiCo is a unique company that has not only shares its royalty with people from the mine’s corridor but also with rest of Madang Province because it shares its royalty with 19 local level governments in the province.

“Ramu NiCo shares its royalty with whole of Madang Province through the 19 LLGs,” Ms Mark said.

“In this way we continue support the infrastructural development in Madang through building of classrooms for schools, Aidposts and other community projects in the LLGs,” she said.

Ms Mark told students that Ramu NiCo has a separate program to assist the company’s projects through the Community Development Fund programs through their four Landowner associations.

Apart from building classrooms, Aidposts, scholarships for the landowners, Ramu NiCo provides quarterly medical drugs supplies annually to certain Aidposts and community health posts in the four impact areas of the mine.

The 2025 PNGCORE Golden Exhibition held at Ela Beach in Port Moresby in collaboration with the 50 years Anniversary of Papua New Guinea, Ramu NiCo is proud to have contributed to the developments in the country through its community projects especially in Usino, Bundi, Raicoast and Madang.

“I stand here as a proud Papua New Guinean and also a proud employee of Ramu NiCo to announce to you and the rest of Papua New Guinea that Ramu NiCo built one world-class bridge across one of the five big rivers in the country in its share of the 50 years and that’s the Banu Bridge across Ramu River,” Ms Mark told the students.

“Papua New Guinea has Sepik River, Ramu River, Markham River the fly River and Purari River,” She Said.

Ms Mark said the Markham Bridge was constructed before Independence but was later rehabilitated but apart from that, no bridge was constructed across the four other big rivers in the country except Ramu River.

“Ramu NiCo put Banu Bridge across Ramu River and now you can drive from Madang town to Usino, cross over Banu Bridge and go Brahman, then to Bundi government station, to Snow pass then to Gembolg in Simbu and drive to Kundiawa,”she explained.

“So Ramu NiCo has already connected Madang with the Highlands provinces before the government launched its Connect PNG program,” Ms Mark said.

Ramu NiCo Public Relation Officer Dorothy Mark explaining the Ramu NiCo operation to Tokarara Secondary school students

Student at the Ramu NiCo booth listening to Ramu NiCo Public Relation Officer Dorothy Mark about what Ramu does in terms of community projects and the mining operation