Articles Tagged "FCX"

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Report Failure

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX) experienced a failure at their 90.6% owned subsidiary PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI) where about 75,000 tonnes of material were affected at the Grasberg open pit.  The incident is not expected to have a significant impact on PT-FI’s long-term mine plans. PT-FI’s mining and milling activities are continuing normally but access [...]

Freeport-McMoRan 2nd Quarter Down

Zacks.com reported Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc.‘s second quarter results.  They were down 23.2 percent year-over-year mainly due to reduced sales volumes of copper and gold.  The reduced sales were attributed to mine sequencing at Indonesia’s Grasberg mine. Freeport-McMoRan was able to offset the increase in costs with the help of high copper and gold [...]