Tumpusiong Valley in Pictures

Continuing on, Tumpusiong Valley people are adapting well to the hazards created for them by the BCL through its Panguna mine since the 1960s to 1989 when the Bougainville Revolutionary Army had it shut. Though, pain is there in the hearts and minds for the suffering from the exploitation of Bougainville for the benefit of the rapacious New Guineans.

To Bougainvilleans, who are Solomon islanders, the mine developed strange and foreign New Guineans.

But, today Tumpusiong Valley that is so economically vibrant. Peoples' lives so rapidly reaching for the high standards of living through gold panning, business activities and you name it.

Tumpusiong West central

Tumpusiong's shopping centre, Pangki'ranaru. Travellers pass through this centre into South Bougainville

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Erosion cutting the barricade of Kabarong river and soon to divert Kabarong into the Biamp'paa river. Below is the Biamp'paa which is about 150 metres below the Kabarong

Gold miner

Kids working for school fee in the gold field of Tumpusiong

Tokuu village in Tumpusiong West

Babatani, a gold buyer in the valley

Only, BCL community development project, a footbright still standing but soon to be uprooted by erosion

People erecting homes with BCL remains. Mak'osi hamlet

Birimpi river at Pirurari village

Kabaronau Community school, one of Tumpusiong's schools