The Grasberg minerals district is a copper, gold, and silver porphyry skarn deposit located in the remote highlands of the Sudirman Mountain Range in the eastern province of Papua, Indonesia, on the western half of the island of New Guinea. The district includes the following operating underground mines: Grasberg Block Cave (GBC), Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ), and Big Gossan (BG). The Grasberg minerals district also includes Kucing Liar (KL), which began development in 2021. The Deep Ore Zone (DOZ) ceased production at the end of 2021 and Grasberg open-pit (GRS_OP) in 2019.

The ore bodies are located within and around two main igneous intrusions: the Grasberg monzodiorite and the Ertsberg diorite. The host rocks of these ore bodies include both carbonate and clastic rocks that form the ridge crests and upper flanks of the Sudirman Range and the igneous rocks of monzonitic to dioritic composition that intrude them. The igneous-hosted ore bodies (GBC, and portions of the DMLZ) occur as vein stockworks and disseminations of copper sulfides, dominated by chalcopyrite and to a lesser extent bornite. The sedimentary-rock hosted ore bodies (portions of the DMLZ, KL and all of the BG) occur as magnetite-rich, calcium/magnesian skarn replacements, whose location and orientation are strongly influenced by major faults and by the chemistry of the carbonate rocks along the margins of the intrusions.

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All of the currently active operations are underground mines. The mining method for each reserve is as follows:
- GBC: block/panel cave mine.
- DMLZ: block/panel cave mine.
- BG: open stope mine.
- KL: block/panel cave mine.

Mine unit operations include drilling, blasting to develop access, undercuts, drawbell development, ore raise development, drawpoint development, cave initiation, as well as loading and hauling. Support equipment is used for maintaining underground access roads, underground crushers, conveyors, and other mine services.

Required underground mining equipment varies by individual operation and includes that equipment required to develop and construct the mines as well as production support. The primary mining fleet consists of load-haul-dump loaders with 11 metric ton capacity and haul trucks with 55 to 60 metric ton capacity.

The site infrastructure at PT-FI has been established over the history of the project and supports the current operations. The current major mine infrastructure includes: waste rock storage facilities, temporary stockpiles, riverine tailings management system, power and electrical systems, water usage systems, various on-site warehouses and maintenance shops, and offices required for administration, engineering, maintenance and other related mine and processing operations.

Grasberg Block Cave Underground Mine
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