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| Anyway, the company has got a great future, and I just feel great about what we're doing with the management transition |
| So that's been a real benefit of bringing together the Indonesian government as an owner in this asset is as much stronger alignment than there ever has been in the operation |
| So we feel very good about the development of Kucing Liar and with an extension at Grasberg being able to unlock a lot more opportunity there than we ever thought we could |
| But -- when you got community support for our operations, native American support, we built the community relations to the point where people want us to expand and so it's a great opportunity for us well |
| We've got a great opportunity in Indonesia to continue to develop and have very large-scale production there |
| And we have the opportunity potentially to produce as much as 800 million pounds from that initiative at a very low operating cost in significant amount of capital, very attractive economics, the most attractive in our whole portfolio |
| So I feel very, very good about our strategy, about our ability of the team to execute and I just feel very excited about the opportunity, very excited about where Freeport's position our ability to generate value in the future |
| Do you envision any strategic changes moving forward? Kathleen Quirk The company is so well positioned as a leader in the copper industry |
| We're committed to copper, I feel strong about that as I ever did |
| So it's a bedrock asset of our company, but -- and in the U.S., we own all of our lands and fees, so there's no royalties, very favorable tax situation and even more favorable because we have a big NOL, which makes me grimace |
| We've got a great team |
| We execute really well |
| We have a great partnership with CODELCO at El Abra, and we have a big opportunity there to unlock a huge resource that through a mill concentrator, we're currently doing a leach project there, and we see an opportunity to develop a concentrator project similar to what we have at Cerro Verde, very attractive |
| Executing very well |
| We've got organic growth opportunities |
| We've got great assets, geographically diverse, operationally diverse |
| Thanks to our friends at Rio Tinto selling out to the government, Freeport was able to maintain its interest and that allowed the government to meet their objective of having a 51% of the equity interest |
| It's not going to be as smooth and easy thing, but we've got a great set of assets to build on internally |
| And then our project in Indonesia is on top of that, the Kucing Liar project, very significant producer of both copper and gold, a very attractive project because we're using a lot of the existing infrastructure that we already have in Indonesia |
| It's a great feeling after devoting my life to this company so much to leave it in such great hands, I mean, she's just a remarkable leader, and she's taken over more and more |
| But it's a huge opportunity for us |
| And he's very supportive |
| And all of the learnings that will drive better efficiencies as we complete that project |
| The supply side is so strongly supported and the world is going to get more electric |
| That is a long-term development where looking to bring it on around the start of the new decade in 2030, going very, very well |
| It included expansion of Morenci, reopening Climax, building Tenke Fungurume, which we created tremendous values on |
| Three years ago -- it has been 20 years since -- I've been coming to this conference for 20 years, and it's great |
| And one thing we didn't learn we did those four projects together 12 years ago and we would have benefited from more front-end engineering studies and those where they have been more efficient |
| And the sustainability of our industry is about our ability to sustain a business over long term to find win-win situations, not try to get every last penny from anyone, but to be fair and honest and reasonable in executing the business |
| It's going to cover a whole range of things that we now have tools available to us in our industry that all of us need to embrace that will allow us to drive better performance in the future |
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| And that's a challenge in our industry |
| You've seen it across the board with a number of companies facing challenges with supply development, project execution |
| We don't even look at really organizational charts, and we have a problem with foreign team to go work on this |
| And that's a real challenge |
| We're dealing with low-grade productivity issues in the Americas right now in the U.S |
| Five major times the company has been threatened with mostly self-imposed problems, and we spent too much of our time dealing with those |
| And I hated corporate culture |
| Last year, I had a knee surgery from a horse accident, and I was limping coming up here and I felt bad |
| The operations were consistent with the way we did things, and it's the easy thing, but we just kind of blew up the corporate culture real quickly and changed it to the Freeport culture |
| It's going to be costly |
| And we just have this deal, we win as a team, we lose as a team |
| I got dissatisfied with what was going on in the firm I was in |
| So if I say the thing to me that I take the most pride in, is creating that culture, and then we went to Phelps Dodge, which had a really tough corporate culture |
| Unfortunately, we ran out of time |
| We've got a new government coming in, in Indonesia, new government in the U.S., we've got political issues in Chile and Peru, we need to work with |
| It was kind of the lesson |
| I never felt nickel would pull out copper when copper went down |
| So I think the thing is if you can get an organization that where people aren't afraid to -- if there's a mistake or a problem, they raise it up |
| I got it shorten to say because the -- there's just been so much |
| We're going to do the right thing and everybody makes mistakes, and when we do, we say how can we solve it? How can roll up our sleeves and go do it |
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