See All Key Ideas Plonked between the formidable Owen Stanley mountains to its west and the Solomon Sea to the east lies Oro, a remote province in Papua New Guinea east of the capital Port Moresby.

Gov. Gary Juffa, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea: I was totally against it. And I was mortified. I'm not a scientist, I'm not an expert on mining or seabed mining or what goes on in the oceans.