JAKARTA - PT Freeport Indonesia, a unit of US miner Freeport McMoRan , said on Monday a pipe transporting copper concentrate at its copper and gold mine in Papua island has been cut.
The company's spokesman did not elaborate.
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Before that, a clash between striking workers and police near the mine killed one protester and injured others, complicating the dispute over pay and working conditions.
