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Freeport’s copper export quota triples to 700,000 tons

The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry decided this month to increase mining company Freeport Indonesia’s copper concentrate export quota to 700,000 wet metric tons (wmt), more than triple the previous quota of 198,282 wmt.

Norman Harsono (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Fri, September 13, 2019

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Freeport’s copper export quota triples to 700,000 tons Gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia’s mining area in Grasberg, Mimika, Papua. (JP/Nethy Dharma Somba)

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he Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry decided this month to increase mining company Freeport Indonesia’s copper concentrate export quota to 700,000 wet metric tons (wmt), a more than threefold increase on the previous quota of 198,282 wmt.

The ministry's minerals director Yunus Saefulhak told reporters in Jakarta on Friday that the decision was a result of successful optimization schemes at the company’s Grasberg copper and gold mine in Papua province.

Read also: Freeport seeks to double export quota this year

“Some studies were conducted and we found that it is still possible to optimize and exploit available means of production,” he said.

He added that the increased copper export quota did not change the company’s overall copper production target of 1.3 million wmt for this year.

The higher quota is a revision of Freeport’s one-year copper export license that was renewed in March.

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