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The Grasberg mine has one of the largest reserves of gold and copper in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located in Mimika Regency , Central Papua , Indonesia near Puncak Jaya . It is operated by PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI, see below ), a joint venture among the government of Indonesia , government of Central Papua , and American company Freeport ...
The Grasberg mine has been cited as one of the largest single taxpayers in Indonesia, [3] [17] contributing 0.6 percent to Indonesia's GDP (96 percent of the GDP of Mimika Regency where the mine is located) and generating 17.3 billion USD in revenue for the Indonesian government between 1992 and 2017 through taxes, export duties, royalties, and ...
Freeport temporarily shut the main supply route to its Grasberg mine complex. [70] A civilian employee of a catering service provider within Freeport died in suspicious circumstances whilst travelling to his village. [73] 17 November 2017: Indonesian police and military evacuated more than 340 Sulawesi migrants from the villages of Banti and ...
The Indonesian government wants to conduct an investigation into why a collapse that led to the deaths of 28 miners occurred last month. Source: Alfindra Primaldhi (Wikimedia Commons).
Zimbabwean authorities were still searching on Monday for survivors trapped underground when a disused gold mine collapsed last week, as some relatives started to lose hope their loved ones could ...
The number of people killed when an illegal gold mine collapsed in Suriname rose to 14 on Tuesday, with seven others missing in what is considered the South American country’s worst mining accident.
The Grasberg mine's tailings "severely impacted" more than 11 square miles (28 km 2) of rainforest, according to a 1996 Dames & Moore environmental audit. [60] The report, endorsed by Freeport, also estimated that during the life of the mine 3.2 billion tons of waste rock – large components of which generate acid – would be dumped into the ...
The story of their rescue is so captivating that it was even made into a film called "The 33" starring Antonio Banderas. The nightmare began when the mine collapsed on August 5, 2010.