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Strikers vow Grasberg shutdown if hourly $1.50 is not upped 8-fold

Frik Els | October 07, 2011 | 5:53 pm Base Metals Precious Metals Top Companies Asia Europe Copper Gold 

Workers at Freeport's Grasberg – one of the world's largest gold and copper mines – in the remote Indonesian province of West Papua vowed Friday to paralyse production, as their strike over pay enters its second month. About 12,000 of...

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