YAKARTA (Reuters) – Workers at Indonesia’s Grasberg gold and copper mine, operated through the Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Unit, prolonged a second-day protest tuesday through an uneasy period of coronavirus closure.
More than 1,000 miners joined the day of the protests and so far blocked the world’s largest copper mine in the eastern component of Papua, a workers’ representative said.
“Our request was still fulfilled. Today there is an assembly with local government and administration,” Tabuni said.
When asked that the protest had disrupted the mining operation, PT Freeport Indonesia spokesman Riza Pratama said Tuesday that “we continue to monitor and conduct negotiations. “
The company runs on a new paint calendar that adheres to “new general protocols,” he said a day earlier.
“Hopefully there will be a solution soon, ” said Pratama.
Freeport miners asked the company to allow the resumption of bus facilities for workers amid restrictions to involve coronavirus infections.
Freeport Indonesia said in May that it had reduced the number of staff and limited the entry and exit of the mine due to the increasing number of coronavirus infections in the region.
Local government knowledge showed Monday that there were approximately 700 coronavirus infections in the Mimika area, where Grasberg is located.
Grasberg’s conhations are lately moving from an open pit mine to an underground conhation. The mine is expected to produce 110,000 tonnes of ore consistently with the day by 2020.
Reporting through Agustinus Beo Da Costa, Fransiska Nangoy; Edited via Ed Davies
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