Bob, with te utmost respect, you can't be much of a miner if yu genuinely believe what you say.
No Bob, ithe highest mountain in PNG is 4,509 meters at Mt Willhelm., a long way east of Mt Kare.
Moving on Mt Kare is not "5,000 meters up a mountain".
Where in the **** do you get this from?
The "Boys Own Adventure Comic, PNG Edition"?
Yes Bob, its in the highlands of PNG.
It's good to see you got the right country.
The highest peak in the Porgera region is only about 3,000 meters.
The valley floor at Kare is about 2,350 above sea level.
The proposed minig operations are at valley base and then + about 300 meters.
So Bob, you will probably have to use a different source of reference material, try Wikipedia or the CIA Fact Book on PNG.
Its basic stuff but reasonabley reliable.
Google Earth is also useful.
A few other minor details you overlooked.
Kare is very close to the terminal easment road leading south from the Porgera lease (i.e along the electricity corridor to Tari).
The Highlands Highway extension runs right to Porgera from the Port of Lae.
The PNG Government planned/planns a N/S connector highway from Tari to the Highlands Highway as part of its national infrastructural grid.
This would connect the massive six billion dollar Hides Oil and Gas field, which is being commissioned RIGHT NOW, with the highlands and the eastern and Sepik provinces of PNG.
Between the road on the Porgera side and Mt Kare is about 3,700 meters of ground that will require some significant earth moving (other than a grader) to establish a road through to Kare.
Otherwise, this is by no means a challenging engineering exercise, see the PFS, its all there.
It is a very significant event for infrastructural development on PNG as you might imagine.
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