This has directly impacted foreign currency inflows into PNG.
OTML says it also continues to incur a significant amount of its normal operating costs, losing approximately K33 million (US$10m) per week.
The company now plans to restart its operations on the 14th of September, six weeks after suspending the mine.
Since the suspension the Company initiated a contact tracing, testing and an isolation program at the mine site with over 3,000 samples collected with 143 positive COVID-19 cases identified in Tabubil.