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The gold and copper mining giant says it is retaining all permanent employees at its Gresik smelter, which has been impacted by the September mudslide at its underground mine in Mimika, Papua, and is not expected to resume operations until March next year.
The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has approved the reopening of the Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ) and Big Gossan mines, both of which had been shut down as part of a broader halt following a deadly accident at the Grasberg mining site in September.
PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) is seeking government approval to resume operations at sections of its massive mining complex in Tembagapura, Central Papua, that were not impacted by a major landslide in September.
The mining giant has confirmed that smelting activity at its Gresik facility has been suspended for over a month after the copper concentrate supply was disrupted due to the operational shutdown at its Grasberg mine following the mudslide incident in September, which killed seven workers.
The mining giant recovered on Sunday the bodies of five remaining workers who went missing on Sept. 8, bringing an end to a nearly monthlong search and rescue effort for seven total workers, all confirmed deceased.
Around 800,000 metric tons of wet material flooded the mine on September 8, when material from an extraction point flowed at one of five sections of the Grasberg Block Cave underground gold and copper mine in Tembagapura.
Following the recovery of two bodies on Saturday, Freeport Indonesia's rescue teams are continuing the difficult search for the five workers still trapped nearly two weeks since a devastating landslide collapsed an underground mine on Sept. 8 in Grasberg, Central Papua.
