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The very beginning of the sensational Tembagapura mines started in the Dutch colonial period.
In the summer of 1939, a Dutch geologist Jean-Jacques Dozy, publized a report after an expedition to the interiors and remote jungle of the then Dutch colony 'Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinea'.
As a result of this expedition the 'Carstenz Mountains' were discovered with two/2 interesting geological 'hills' Ertsberg and Grasberg .
Dozy himself, considered 'Ertsberg' (: mountain of ore) the most geological noteworthy, due to a high concentration of chalcopyrite .
It looks greenish & blackish, lateron later geologists of Freeport McMoRon/Copper & Gold Compagny mention pieces of one/1 meter of this material, that was hardly seen in nature.
Thirty years later Forbes Wilson of Freeport catch hold of this Dutch report of Dozy, handed over by a also Dutch geologist.
He decides to make over the tracks of the same Dutch expedition, Dozy was on.
He began on 30 th of may 1960 and reached his goal of 'Ertsberg' & 'Grasberg' at 16 th june 1960.
Afterwards 'Grasberg' turns out to be more ecnomicly valuable than 'Ertsberg'; huge deposits of copper & gold , with the biggest and vasliest concentrations were discovered.
There is only 3 K m distance between the two mountains.
At 5 th of june 1967, Freeport got permission, by the Indonesian Gouvernment to exploit through minery this area.
Bechtel Compagny California/USA was contracted to access the 'Ertsberg' & 'Grasberg' by constructing the H.E.A.T. (: Heavy Equipment Access Trail).
From the delta of mangrove trees to an altitude of 4,3 K m above sea level, with human sacrifices and somebody like Ilyas Hamid, of Sumatra, who did their bit.
An airport and a harbour were also constructed to finish of this whole project, that lasted 20 years and costed 20 billion U$ dollars.
In 1972 the first ore carrier was loaded.
Freeport geologists, like Freeport seniour geologist Steve D. van Nort, Eleonor
Wilson, Frank Nelson, David Potter and Jay Pennington, stated that economicly Ertsberg & Grasberg delivers:
317 kg of copper
30 kg of gold
30 kg of silver out of 907.18 kg of an American tonne; the daily production was 600.000
tonnes.
The successor of George Mealey, the new chairman James Robert Moffett is planning to do more research in the surrounding of Ertsberg & Grasberg for economicly interesting hills in the former Dutch Carstenz Mountains of West-Papua/Irian Barat.
Who leaves from Timika airport , with an airliner, west or from East-Indonesia to Timika is able to see this scenery of destructive exploitation of these two Tembagapura mines.
The left overs from these two mines are dumped directly into the sea.
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Hardly any traditional local Papuan fisherman, in an outrigger-canoe, is to be seen at sea from above.
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Ocean currents could transport these left overs from this large scale minery exploitation at Tembagapura towards Nothern-Australia and threaten marine coral life, at least.
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" ... will the G-20 countries also talk about this huge ecological impact of the Tembagapura mines ... ???
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The sea in front of Tembagapura is nearby interconnected with the Pacific, this vastly ocean is the most voluminous on earth.
Source: 'Superstructure-series' - Discovery Channel,
Bonda Productions for Unapix,
Interviews The Learning Channel.
MCMXCI.
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