JAKARTA (AP): A landslide at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine injured several workers in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, a company spokesman said.
None of the Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Mine Inc.'s workers were seriously hurt in the landslide in remote Papua province, said spokesman Mindo
Pangaribuan. Production was unaffected, he added.
Pangaribuan said the exact number of people hurt wasn't immediately clear.
The mine, said to be the world's largest, has earned the company billions of dollars (euros) since it began production in the early 1970s after it signed a deal with U.S.-backed dictator Suharto.
Last year, a landslide smashed into a cafeteria for workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Grasberg mine, killing two Indonesian workers and injuring several others.
Freeport-McMoRan is based in Phoenix, Arizona.
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