Freeport is a private company which operates the Grasberg mine in Timika, Papua (in the far eastern part of Indonesia). This vast mine is the world's largest gold mine and third-largest copper mine. The company said that safety has improved as a result of the disastrous collapse. At the same time, the company stressed that such an incident had never occurred before.

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