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Corporate Accountability (ICCA) to audit the implementation
of our Social, Employment and Human Rights Policy. ICCA
publicly released its audit findings in October 2005 and will return
to our operations during 2006 to review our implementation of
their recommendations.
Environmental Management
We are committed to managing the impact of our operations on
the surrounding environment in a responsible manner. Through
our comprehensive Environmental Policy, we commit to sound
environmental management and practices, to providing adequate
resources to fulfill our responsibility, to comprehensive monitoring
to assess our effectiveness and to continuous improvement of our
performance. This policy is available on our web site (www.fcx.com).
PT Freeport Indonesia does not use mercury or cyanide in its
processes, relying instead on a flotation process that physically
separates the copper- and gold-bearing minerals from the ore.
Comprehensive monitoring conducted for years continues to show
there is no significant level of mercury, arsenic or cyanide in the
water, sediment, fish or plants in our operations area. Our long-term
monitoring program includes the annual collection of thousands of
environmental samples and the conducting of tens of thousands of
analyses, which include aquatic biology, aquatic tissue, plant tissue,
mine water, surface water, ground water, sanitary wastewater, river
sediments and tailings. Our sampling continues to demonstrate
that the water in the river that transports the tailings from the
highlands meets the Indonesian and U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency drinking water standards for dissolved metals and that the
estuaries downstream of the tailings deposition area are functioning
ecosystems based both on the number of species and the number of
specimens collected of nektonic, or free-swimming, organisms such
as fish and shrimp.
Our commitment to minimizing
our impact and reclaiming or
revegetating affected land includes
reseeding mine overburden sites
with native plants.
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2,100
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3,500
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PT Freeport Indonesia Papuan Employees
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