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Freeport’s Indonesian copper mine production normal – union official

Production at Freeport McMoRan Inc’s huge copper and gold mine in Indonesia is running at normal levels, a union official said on Monday, as talks continued between the government and US miner to resolve an export spat. Freeport, which runs one of the world’s biggest copper mines in Papua, lost its right to export concentrate last week, with talks with Indonesia’s government deadlocked over payment for a new metal smelter.