Mount Fubilan

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Coordinates: 5°5′24″S 141°13′5″E / 5.09000°S 141.21806°E / -5.09000; 141.21806

Mount Fubilan was a mountain in Papua New Guinea. It is the site of the Ok Tedi Mine which has reduced the mountain to a pit in the ground.

The copper mining potential of Mount Fubilan was discovered by Kennecott Copper Corporation in 1968. After feasibility studies for an open pit operation by a consortium of companies led by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, mining started in 1984 and the first copper processing facilities were commissioned in 1987.[1] By 31 December 2004, 8,896,577 tonnes of copper concentrate (containing 2,853,265 tonnes of copper metal and 7,035,477 ounces of gold metal [Worth 12 billion US dollars at today's prices] ) had been mined. In addition, between 1985 and 1990, 47.642 tonnes (1,680,553 ounces) of gold bullion was produced.[2]

For more information, see Ok Tedi Mine.

References

  1. ↑ "TECHNICAL REPORT ON THE OK TEDI MINING LIMITED MT. FUBILAN COPPER-GOLD MINE MINERAL RESOURCE AND MINERAL RESERVE ESTIMATES, PAPUA NEW GUINEA". INMET MINING CORPORATION. Retrieved 2009-03-18. 
  2. ↑ "Operations: The Mineral Resource". Ok Tedi Mining. Archived from the original on 2007-04-13. Retrieved 2007-05-07. 

See also

  • Mountaintop removal


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