Jayapura, Papua (Antara) - Around 27 employees of US gold and copper mining company PT Freeport Indonesia are still missing in a landslide occurring in underground mining area in Tembagapura, Papua Province, Tuesday. Tembagapura Police Chief Adjunct Commissioner Sudirman said here on Wednesday, around 41 people were in the area when the disaster happened, and 14 of them were evacuated, including four dead bodies. Search and rescue efforts are still going on to look for more survivors, he said. When the landslide occurred, the 41 people were in a class room for a training program. The collapse of PT Freeport underground mine this time was the biggest with the higher number of victims in the past few years after a similar incident at the Grassberg in 2003. In October 2003, a section of the Freeport gold mine collapsed and killed two workers and injured five others. The workers were killed when a section of the open-pit Grasberg mine collapsed onto workers in the pit. The Grasberg deposit, discovered by Freeport in 1988, has the world's largest gold reserves and the third-largest copper reserves. (*)


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