Column: US targets scrap to close the critical minerals gap
As the US government is discovering, investing in new scrap processing capacity is far cheaper and greener than building new mines.
The Indonesian government issued one-year export recommendations for copper concentrate to miners PT Freeport Indonesia and PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara, officials from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources said on Friday.
Freeport was given an allowance of 198,282 wet tonnes of copper concentrate, while Amman was given 336,100 wet tonnes, said Yunus Saifulhak, director of minerals at the energy and mining ministry.
Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade will issue the export permits according to the recommendation from mining ministry.
(Reporting by Wilda Asmarini; writing by Fransiska Nangoy; editing by Christian Schmollinger)
