Get sick or go hungry? Workers face dilemma at Freeport’s Grasberg mine

Mongabay
May 8, 2020, 12:58 am244 ptsTrending
Thousands of workers at the world’s largest copper and gold mine, run by U.S.-based Freeport McMoRan in the Indonesian province of Papua, have been instructed to remain on the company’s premises or risk being furloughed without pay, amid an outbreak at the mine that has seen 56 employees test positive for…

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