Indonesia is fortunate to be endowed with vast mineral wealth. The country is the world’s second largest producer of tin and nickel and, in 2009, according to the USGS, was the world’s fourth largest copper producer.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Bloomberg reported that Mitsubishi Materials (PINK:MIMTF) will increase output at its Indonesia-based Gresik smelter by2.2%.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Indonesian unit of Newmont Mining Corp. expects copper production to rise by 60 percent this year as it starts to mine higher grade ore. For more information, click here
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Monday, September 22, 2008
The Asian based Canadian mineral exploration company, East Asia Minerals Corporation, has begun their 3000 metre diamond drilling program within Aceh, Indonesia. The project is focusing on porphyry copper-gold. The first hole at Upper Tengkereng is now well advanced, and has been drilling in altered and copper mineralized porphyry from surface. An advanced argillic [...]
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Monday, September 15, 2008
The controversial Grasberg mine, owned by Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. continues to be under attack from Indonesia’s Papua province rebels. The Free Papua Movement (OPM) have claimed responsibility for the bombings in the area and are demanding the closure of Grasberg. Freeport’s Grasberg mine — believed to have the world’s third-largest copper reserve [...]
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
PT Nusantara Smelting Corp intends to set up a copper smelter next year with a production capacity of 200,000 tonnes of copper cathode. The smelter will support the upcoming mining law that requires mining products to be processed locally prior to export. The mining law, which has been in the works for several years and [...]
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