Thursday, April 22, 2010

The Big Holes in Indonesia

Batu Hijau mine is an open pit mine which is a copper and gold mine. These mines operated by Newmont Mining Corporation subsidiary PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (PT Newmont). This mine is located 1530 kilometers (950 miles) east of the capital Jakarta, Indonesia in Sumbawa, in the District Taliwang south, an island in West Nusa Tenggara. Mine is the result of ten years of exploration and development programs are based on the discovery of porphyry copper deposit in 1999. Production began in 2000.

2. Mining holes Grasberg in Papua
Grasberg mine is the largest gold mine and third largest copper mine in the world. Located in Indonesia's Papua province near the Puncak Jaya, the highest mountain in Papua, and has 19 500 employees. It is majority owned by a subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan, based in the United States (67.3%), together with its subsidiary, PT Indocopper Investment Corporation (9.3%), and Indonesia (9.3%) ; and revenue sharing joint venture with Rio Tinto Group (13%). The cost to build the mine on the mountain of U.S. $ 3 billion. In the year 2006, an estimated 2.8 billion tons of reserves valued at 1.09% copper, 0.98 grams / ton gold and 3.87 grams / tonne silver. Production in 2006 was 610 800 tons of copper; 58,474,392 grams of gold, and 174 458 971 grams of silver.

source:
http://mediaranahjaya.blogspot.com/
http://kaskus.us
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://googleearthplaces.com

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