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Indonesia evaluating mining rules as deadline on metal exports nears

Published Fri, Sep 9, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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INDONESIA'S mining ministry is scrambling to find a way around a deadline on mineral processing that could prevent some miners, including US copper mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Inc, from exporting minerals from the country from 2017.

Under a government regulation introduced in 2014, miners of copper, zinc, lead, manganese and iron are restricted to exporting partially processed minerals until January 2017, af…

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