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Indonesia Gold
Most gold production officially reported in government
statistics was a byproduct of Freeport Indonesia's copper
mining.
In 1989 total official gold production was about 6,000
kilograms,
of which about 4,000 kilograms was extracted by Freeport
Indonesia
with a 15,000 kilogram production expected by the end of
1992.
However, a large number of small-scale mining operations
in
Kalimantan may have produced as much as 18,000 kilograms
of gold in
1989. Many of these small mines were operated illegally on
foreign
concessions. In 1989 there were approximately eighty
foreign
contractors with concessions for gold exploration,
primarily in
Kalimantan, but only a small number had producing mines.
Data as of November 1992
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