JAKARTA -- The top executive at Indonesia's state-owned mining holding company says talks are still on with China's Tsingshan Steel over a $2.8 billion plan to build a second copper smelter for Freeport Indonesia.
Tsingshan negotiations near new deadline after recently starting with Enfi

The open-pit mine of Freeport's Grasberg copper and gold mine complex in Indonesia. © Antara Foto/Reuters
JAKARTA -- The top executive at Indonesia's state-owned mining holding company says talks are still on with China's Tsingshan Steel over a $2.8 billion plan to build a second copper smelter for Freeport Indonesia.