Freeport gets a place to dump tailing
Monday, April 16 2001 - 04:30 AM WIB
PT Freeport Indonesia has secured licenses from both the central government and the Irian Jaya administration to dump its mining tailing to a huge area of 230 square kilometers in Aijkwa.
The tailing would be floated from Freeport's concentrate plant in a higher altitude place through a river flowing from Aghawagon to Otomona and then to Aijkwa, where the tailing is settled in the dumping site.
Freeport said in a statement that the company's efforts of converting its tailing into cement raw material had got positive responses from four Indonesian ministers.
They are Minister of Regional Settlement Erna Witoelar, Minister of Industry and Trade Luhut B. Pandjaitan, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro and Junior Minister for the Development of Eastern Indonesia Manuel Kaisiepo. (*)