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Thousands strike again at Freeport’s mine in Indonesia
Thousands of workers at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's (NYSE:FCX) Indonesia unit stopped working on Thursday following an unsettled ongoing dispute with the organization, reports Reuters.
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Freeport McMoRan resumes work at Grasberg gold/copper mine
Mineweb | March 12, 2012The company resumed work at its massive Grasberg mine as expected on Monday for the first time since a suspension on Feb 23.
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Outlook for copper murky at best
Frik Els | July 6, 2011Copper prices fell on Wednesday after China raised interest rates and Portugal’s debt joined the junk ranks but the longer term outlook for the metal remains murky. Arguments on both sides make sense: Bulls point to labour unrest at Freeport and Codelco and the vagueries of weather while the more bearish highlight Japanese smelter outages and Chinese destocking.
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New Indonesian Gold Mine Expected to Produce in 2011
Andrew Topf | November 17, 2010
Hong Kong-based G-Resources Group Ltd. (1051.HK) is on track to becoming a significant gold producer in Asia, with construction already started on the Martabe gold and silver mine in North Sumatra, Indonesia.
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New Conveyor Idler Aligner Delivers Improved Safety, Precise Adjustment
Andrew Topf | November 11, 2010A new conveyor idler aligner featuring a safe and effective method to manually fine tune OEM-style self-adjusting idlers has been introduced by Martin Engineering. Read more
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Good belt cleaning reduces Grasberg copper and gold losses
International Mining | March 16, 2010The April issue of IM includes the penultimate article on PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) and looks at oreflow to the concentrator and overburden handling. Obviously an operation of this size employs hundreds of kilometres of conveyor belt. Cleaning those belts properly is vitally important and relies on Martin Engineering belt cleaners.
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Optimisation of Grasberg (copper/gold) block cave haulage
International Mining | March 15, 2010A paper at the SME Annual Meeting at the beginning of the month considers the feasibility study for the Grasberg block cave mine (IM, March 2010), finalised in May 2008, that indicated a production capacity of 160,000 t/d. A rail haulage system was an integral part of the mine design. This paper describes the simulation [...]
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PT Freeport Indonesia to build Papua's first cement plant
mineweb - daily news headlines | November 30, 2009Freeport-McMoRan plans to build a cement plant to meet both the needs of the Grasberg mine and the infrastructure demands for the province of Papua.
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Worldclass medical care sets Freeport Indonesia apart from many of its contemporaries
International Mining | September 21, 2009A healthy population is at the heart of sustainable development is a philosophy wholeheartedly embraced by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold and Freeport Indonesia. On a typical day in Tembagapura, the town near the great Grasberg mine that is currently the subject of a series of articles in International Mining, the 100-bed employee hospital is abuzz with activity. [...]
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Conveyors, comminution, deep open pits, Grasberg and Kazak mining
International Mining | August 17, 2009International Mining welcomes editorial contributions for its October issue – deadline September 4. Articles being worked on include new developments in conveying, better machines and ancillaries for comminution, the problems of working deep open pits and the dynamic mining industry of Kazakhstan with participation from domestic and international mining companies. The series of articles on [...]
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2nd worker killed at Freeport mine
mining news | July 20, 2009A contract security employee at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s Grasberg mine in Indonesia was shot and killed Sunday, the second deadly act of violence to occur near the Phoenix-based company's massive foreign complex in two days.
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Orezone Completes the Sale of Sega to Cluff Gold for $26.5M
Orezone Gold Corporation (ORE:TSX) is pleased to announce that it has completed the sale of its Sega Gold Project ("Sega") in Burkina Faso to Cluff Gold plc (Cluff) for total consideration of approximately US$26.5M.
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