Papua New Guinea Mining Tenements, Concessions & Villages
RemoteAbout Papua New Guinea Mining Tenements, Concessions & Villages
A BumiAtlas MCP server for researching Papua New Guinea land use. It lets AI clients look up mining and forestry concessions, palm oil sites, and census villages by location or identifier, using dated public-data snapshots.
Key features
- 01Search mining, forestry, and palm oil records
- 02Find records by point, code, name, or holder
- 03Retrieve village population and administrative areas
- 04Request concession boundaries as GeoJSON
Use cases
- 01Check concessions covering a coordinate
- 02Find a tenement by code and identify its holder
- 03Locate census villages near a place
- 04Review concession records with snapshot-date caveats
MCP support
Provides the `PG_concession_search` and `PG_village_search` tools to MCP clients. Connect through the BumiAtlas URL using an MCP client.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/papuanewguineaclaude mcp add --transport http bumiatlas-papuanewguinea-concessions https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/papuanewguinea{"mcpServers":{"bumiatlas-papuanewguinea-concessions":{"type":"http","url":"https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/papuanewguinea"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"bumiatlas-papuanewguinea-concessions":{"type":"http","url":"https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/papuanewguinea"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"bumiatlas-papuanewguinea-concessions":{"type":"http","url":"https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/papuanewguinea"}}}{"mcpServers":{"bumiatlas-papuanewguinea-concessions":{"serverUrl":"https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/papuanewguinea"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEPapua 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
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
PG_concession_search | Mining 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_search | Census 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.
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