Amamapare
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Amamapare is a port town in Papua, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

.It is an important industrial centre and slurry containing copper-gold concentrate is delivered by three pipelines from Grasberg mine
Grasberg mine
The Grasberg Mine is the largest gold mine and the third largest copper mine in the world. It is located in the province of Papua in Indonesia near Puncak Jaya, the highest mountain in Papua, and it has 19,500 employees...

over 70 miles away. In Amamapare it is dewatered, filtered and dried and then shipped to smelters around the world. The facilities at the port also include a coal-fired power station, which supplies the Grasberg operations.
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