Batu Hijau mine

Batu Hijau Mine
Batu Hijau pit in 2006
Location
Batu Hijau Mine is located in Sumbawa
Batu Hijau Mine
Batu Hijau Mine
Location in Sumbawa
Batu Hijau Mine is located in Lesser Sunda Islands
Batu Hijau Mine
Batu Hijau Mine
Batu Hijau Mine is located in Indonesia
Batu Hijau Mine
Batu Hijau Mine
Location in Indonesia
LocationWest Sumbawa Regency
ProvinceWest Nusa Tenggara
CountryIndonesia
Coordinates08°58′S 116°52′E / 8.967°S 116.867°E / -8.967; 116.867
Production
ProductsCopper
Gold
Silver
Production463,900,000 pounds copper
730,700 ounces gold
2,170,400 ounces silver
Financial year2022
History
Opened2000
Closed2032
Owner
CompanyPT. Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara
WebsitePT. Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara

The Batu Hijau mine is an open pit copper-gold mine operated by PT. Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara (previously known as PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara). The mine is the second largest copper-gold mine in Indonesia behind the Grasberg mine of PT. Freeport Indonesia. The mine is located 1,530 kilometres (950 mi) east of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sumbawa, an island in West Nusa Tenggara Province, more precisely in the southern part of West Sumbawa Regency. The mine is the result of a ten-year exploration and construction program based on a 1999 discovery of the porphyry copper deposit. Production began in 2000.

The mine utilizes a "truck and shovel" open-pit mining method, with ore reporting to semi-Autogenous Grinding and ball mills, followed by a flotation circuit. The finished product is a thickened copper-gold concentrate, which is pumped to a filtration and storage facility at the Benete port.