January 28, 2022 - What do an obstetrics nurse, a metallurgical engineer and a contract supervisor have in common?

Their careers, along with nearly 500 other students over the years, were made possible with the help of El Abra’s Indigenous Scholarship Program, which helps students from nearby villages attend a university or technical school. Scholarships are worth $2,200 per student per year and are renewable annually. The money may be used for tuition, computers and supplies.

January 20, 2022 - The glistening copper dome atop the historic Arizona state capitol building has been restored to the grandeur originally envisioned, this time for real and hopefully for a lot longer than the last time.

January 14, 2022 - PT Freeport Indonesia joined with two cultural foundations to host an exhibition and sale of Kamoro Art in Jakarta, Indonesia in late October.

Proceeds for the art sale went directly to the artists and the Maramowe Weaiku Kamorowe Foundation, an organization dedicated to the preservation of Kamoro traditional art in Mimika Regency, Papua.

January 7, 2022 – Safford, Ariz., employees are learning about the ground that supports their jobs.

Last summer, the Safford Geology team began hosting tours of the site’s three open pits – Dos Pobres, San Juan and Lone Star – to provide employees a crash course on the rock, soil and other geologic layers that contain and surround Safford’s copper deposits.

January 3, 2022 - Freeport-McMoRan was named one of the top large corporations in the United States for its environmental, social and governance practices in new rankings published by Newsweek. The company finished 419th on the list of the 500 most responsible companies based on ESG performance.

December 28, 2021 - You know you’ve got a mighty big project on your hands when the president of the country shows up at your groundbreaking.

That level of interest shouldn’t be surprising considering the smelter now under construction by PT Freeport Indonesia has been in discussion for years, and just the site preparation at the 100-hectare site (about 250 acres) in Gresik in northeast Java took nearly two years of ground improvement and stripping.

December 17, 2021 - Leave it to a world-class copper company to be one of the major players in a world-class effort to save lives and help overcome COVID-19 with a mammoth shipment of medical supplies from New York City to Indonesia.

Approached in early November by the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce to donate up to $300,000 needed to ship 46 40-foot containers of surplus PPE, Richard Adkerson, Chairman of the Board and CEO, and Kathleen Quirk, President and Chief Financial Officer, quickly agreed to support the effort in full.

December 16, 2021 - Minera El Abra selected 33 businesses for the Fund Empréndete 2021, which will finance businesses or business ideas of people in the Antofagasta Region who have been trained with the DreamBuilder program.

This initiative, executed by the Development Corporation of the Province of El Loa, PROLOA, seeks to strengthen local economic development through training and the delivery of funds linked to entrepreneurship. The Fund is available in the communities of Calama, Tocopilla, María Elena, Quillagüa, Chiu Chui and Toconce.