More than 1,000 workers blocked access to the world’s biggest gold mine in protest at a company move to shut down visits to their families over virus concerns.
The miners demonstrated at the main entrance to the Grasberg complex – also a major copper mine – in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua region, as the workers and US-based operator Freeport held talks.
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