Tembagapura
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Tembagapura is a town built to support the Grasberg Mine
in the Indonesia
n province of Papua. Construction of the mine and its infrastructure including the town, commenced in the late-1960s.
In Indonesian
, tembaga means "copper" and pura is equivalent to "temple" or "town", meaning "Copper Town".
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...
in the 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...
n province of Papua. Construction of the mine and its infrastructure including the town, commenced in the late-1960s.
In Indonesian
Indonesian language
Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....
, tembaga means "copper" and pura is equivalent to "temple" or "town", meaning "Copper Town".