Freeport yet to pay Indonesia smelter deposit as export deadline looms
January 25, 2016 at 20:49 PM EST
JAKARTA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Freeport McMoRan Inc has yet to pay a $530 million deposit for a new Indonesian smelter, which the government is demanding before renewing the U.S. company's export permit for copper concentrate, a mines ministry official said on Tuesday.