Mount Fubilan

Coordinates: 5°5′24″S 141°13′5″E / 5.09000°S 141.21806°E / -5.09000; 141.21806

Mount Fubilan was a mountain in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It has been dismantled in the course of development of the site as the Ok Tedi Mine. This has been developed since 1984 as an open-pit copper and gold mine. Due to decades of mining, the mountain has been reduced to a massive pit in the ground.

The copper mining potential of Mount Fubilan was discovered by Kennecott Copper Corporation in 1968. After feasibility studies for an open-pit operation, conducted by a consortium of companies led by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited, mining started in 1984. The company first started by processing gold for extraction through a cyanide process.

The first copper processing facilities were commissioned in 1987.[1] By 31 December 2004, 8,896,577 tonnes of copper concentrate (containing 2,853,265 tonnes of copper metal and 7,035,477 ounces of gold metal [Worth 12 billion US dollars at today's prices] ) had been mined. In addition, between 1985 and 1990, 47.642 tonnes (1,680,553 ounces) of gold bullion was produced.[2]

For more information, see Ok Tedi Mine.

References

  1. ↑ "TECHNICAL REPORT ON THE OK TEDI MINING LIMITED MT. FUBILAN COPPER-GOLD MINE MINERAL RESOURCE AND MINERAL RESERVE ESTIMATES, PAPUA NEW GUINEA" (PDF). INMET MINING CORPORATION. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  2. ↑ "Operations: The Mineral Resource". Ok Tedi Mining. Archived from the original on 2007-04-13. Retrieved 2007-05-07.

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