Reply #5: Bit off topic really but there's more here

[dipsydoodle]

Inside the Grasberg Mine

"Months of investigation by The New York Times revealed a level of contacts and financial support to the military not fully disclosed by Freeport, despite years of requests by shareholders concerned about potential violations of American laws and the company's relations with a military whose human rights record is so blighted that the United States severed ties for a dozen years until November."

http://www.safecom.org.au/freeport.htm

and here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasberg_mine regarding its discovery and history. Keep an eye out for an interesting documentary on Discovery, National Geographic, whatever on the subject of the Grasberg "mine" itself - its the whole of the top of a mountain !

It's full exploitation seems to have come about by virtue <sic> of a tacit agreement between the USA and Indonesia when the latter went in to East Samoa.

My overall point was that history has a habit of repeating itself : next up Columbia ?