Artemis Gold’s Blackwater mine at final commissioning stage
Artemis now expects to feed first ore to the ball mill in the next few weeks and continues to target first gold pour before year end.
JAKARTA, Feb 18 (Reuters) –
* PT Freeport Indonesia’s copper concentrate export permit expired on Feb. 15, and the company has not received export recommendations from the mining ministry that will help it to obtain a new permit, company spokesman Riza Pratama said on Monday in a text message.
* The unit of Freeport McMoRan for the time being is shipping part of its production to its smelter in East Java, Pratama said.
* He declined to disclose the new export quota it proposed to the government.
* Indonesia forecast copper concentrate exports to drop to 200,000 tonnes in 2019 from about 1.2 million tonnes last year.
(Reporting by Wilda Asmarini; writing by Fransiska Nangoy; editing by Christian Schmollinger)
