Company Donations Ease Oxygen Shortage Amid Deadly COVID-19 Resurgence

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August 10, 2021 - PT Freeport Indonesia and Cerro Verde in Peru are helping local health officials combat a deadly resurgence of COVID-19 cases with the donation of equipment to generate oxygen for medical use, which is now in critically short supply.

The company has begun producing the oxygen at a converted industrial generating plant and recently donated 30 oxygen concentrators to hospitals and a health clinic in Timika, Papua, as part of PTFI’s efforts to provide oxygen needed to treat coronavirus patients.

Marcela E. Donadio

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Ms. Donadio retired as a Partner of Ernst & Young LLP, a multinational professional services firm, in 2014. From 2007 until her retirement in 2014, she served as Americas Oil & Gas Sector Leader for Ernst & Young, with responsibility for one of the firm’s significant industry groups. She advised the firm’s oil and gas industry clients in the United States and throughout the Americas on business strategies and financial matters. Ms.

Sara Grootwassink Lewis

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Ms. Lewis founded Lewis Corporate Advisors, a capital markets and board advisory firm, in 2009, where she served as Chief Executive Officer until 2018. Ms. Lewis has significant executive leadership, accounting, corporate finance and capital markets experience, and previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Washington Real Estate Investment Trust. She has served on several public company boards, including Sun Life Financial, a global insurance and asset management firm, where she chaired its Audit Committee.

Three-time Olympian Archer and Son of Miami Supervisor Shoots for Gold in Tokyo

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July 23, 2021 - Brady Ellison will shoot arrows from his new copper bow on his quest for a gold medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo as fans and fledgling archers across the world root for the cowboy from Copper Country. 

For father Alfred Ellison, Senior Supervisor-Hydromet SX in Miami, the pride he most takes in his son goes beyond his acumen for archery to the way he has inspired so many people.   

Freeport-McMoRan Helps Discover a New Frog Species in Papua

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July 22, 2021 - PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI), in partnership with The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the South Australian Museum, discovered a new frog species in Mimika Regency, Papua, Indonesia.

Named Litoria lubisi, this species of large green tree frog is in the same family as Litoria infratrenata. The discovery of the new species was officially published in the international journal Zootaxa.

Company to Community During Telegraph Fire: ‘Whatever you need’

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July 20, 2021 - When the worst of twin wildfires approached the doorstep of Globe-Miami in Central Arizona and the company’s Miami operations on June 6, Freeport-McMoRan had one unified response to calls for help from firefighters, agencies, community members and employees: “Whatever you need.”

For Arizona State Forestry Battalion Chief Burrell Teague, it was Freeport delivering on a Type I Fire Engine and crew from Morenci and water trucks from Miami ops at a time when the fires had closed highway access and severely limited the ability to bring in firefighting resources.