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Location: 60 km NE from Timika, Indonesia
Pacific Century Place, Lt. 29, SCBD Lot 10 Jl. Jenderal Sudirman Kav. 52-53JakartaIndonesia12190
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Freeport-McMoRan have a 48.76% share ownership in PT-FI and the remaining 51.24% share ownership is held by PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (an Indonesian state-owned enterprise).
The Grasberg minerals district is situated on the crest of the Sudirman Mountain Range at elevations over 2,500 meters with the highest peak, Puncak Jaya at 4,884 meters. Ore deposits in the Grasberg minerals district have economic copper, gold, and silver mineralization in porphyries and skarns. The primary sulfide mineralization is chalcopyrite, with lesser bornite, chalcocite, and covellite. Gold concentrations usually occur as inclusions within the copper sulfide minerals although in some parts of deposits gold can also be strongly associated with pyrite.There are five major ore bodies all within the center of the Grasberg minerals district: • Grasberg Intrusive Complex (GIC) includes the GBC and the depleted GRS_OP. • EESS includes DMLZ and depleted GBT, IOZ, DOZ block caves. • BG. • KL (development stage mineral reserve). • Dom (classified as mineral resource).The DMLZ ore body lies below the Deep Ore Zone (DOZ) underground mine at the 2,590-meter elevation and represents the downward continuation of mineralization in the Ertsberg East Skarn system and neighboring Ertsberg porphyry.The igneous-hosted ore bodies (the Grasberg Block Cave 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 and Kucing Liar and all of the Big Gossan) 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.The copper mineralization in these skarn deposits is dominated by chalcopyrite, but higher bornite concentrations are common. Moreover, gold occurs in significant concentrations in all of the district’s ore bodies, though rarely visible to the naked eye. These gold concentrations usually occur as inclusions within the copper sulfide minerals, though, in some deposits, these concentrations can also be strongly associated with pyrite.
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