silver mine as well. this is an american company, but the physical footprint that freeport has in indonesia, it isn't just visible from space. it's easily visible from space. it's massive. their mine in papua province in indonesia, is basically a massive upside down mountain. it's almost a half million acres. they first discovered mineral wealth there in the 1930s when it was a dutch colony, by the 1970s, indonesia was an independent country and that mine was one of the biggest open pits in the world. among the many products and byproducts of that mine are of course all that silver and copper and gold. also hundreds of millions of tons of mining waste that they have dumped in the surrounding jungle and rivers. that environmental damage associated with that mine is one of the things that mine is most