JAKARTA -- The local unit in Indonesia of U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan said on Friday that talks with China's Tsingshan Holding Group about joint development of a major copper smelting plant in the Southeast Asian country have failed.
"[Freeport] could not reach a deal with Tsingshan to build the smelter," Riza Pratama, Freeport Indonesia's vice president for corporate communications, told Nikkei Asia, referring to a project the Chinese company had proposed in North Maluku Province.
