Papua New Guinea Mining Tenements, Concessions & Villages

PNG mining tenements, logging concessions, RSPO palm oil and census villages by point, code or name.

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Papua New Guinea Mining Tenements, Logging Concessions & Villages MCP

Connect your AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to BumiAtlas for Papua New Guinea land-use research through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

This listing is a focused entry point for:

  • Mining tenements from the Mineral Resources Authority's ~2015 Landfolio export and a ~2013 snapshot: exploration licences, mining leases, special mining leases (Panguna, Ok Tedi, Lihir, Porgera), alluvial leases and easements, with titleholders and their equity
  • Forestry concessions from the PNG Forest Authority, with type, plan id, dates, area and lifecycle remarks
  • RSPO-certified palm oil estates, smallholder blocks and mills
  • Census villages with ward, LLG, district, province and population
  • Lookup by point, tenement code (EL 1279), name or holder

PNG has no public parcel cadastre: most land is customary. Tenement data stops at the snapshots: a licence past its expiry may since have been renewed or lapsed.

Connect

https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/papuanewguinea

Add it as a custom connector in any MCP client and sign in with Google. Tools, examples and data notes: bumiatlas.com/mcp-docs/papuanewguinea.

  • Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the URL, then Connect.
  • ChatGPT: Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode, then Create with the URL and OAuth authentication.

Tools

ToolDescription
PG_concession_searchMining tenements, forestry concessions and palm oil sites at latitude, longitude or by code, name or holder; each record whole, boundaries as GeoJSON on request
PG_village_searchCensus villages by name (narrowed by province, district or LLG) or near latitude, longitude, with population

Example prompts

  • "What mining tenements cover -5.4667, 143.1333?"
  • "Who holds EL 2318, and when was it applied for?"
  • "Which logging concessions are named Kamula Doso?"
  • "Which census villages are near Port Moresby, and how many people live there?"

Data source

Tenements, concessions and palm oil © PNG Forest Authority (NFMS geo-portal); villages © DLPP LUIMS and the National Statistical Office. A copy of public data for research, not a legal record.