Low wages lead to closure of US-owned world's largest gold mine in Indonesia

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The US entrepreneurs are not only exploiting workers and general populace in the USA but even in the far flung countries as well. The Wall Street like protests have now spilled over to a US owned world's largest gold and copper mines in remote areas of West Papua, Indonesia. The workers of the Grasberg mine, owned by  Freeport-McMoran, are on strike for the second consecutive month, who are paid the lowest wages, between $1.50 and $3 an hour, the lowest of any Freeport-McMoran operation worldwide.

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