Talk:Freeport-McMoRan

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Mining High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Mining, a collaborative project to organize and improve articles related to mining and mineral industries. If you would like to participate, you can edit the attached article, or visit the project page, where you can see a list of open tasks, join in the discussion, or join the project.MiningWikipedia:WikiProject MiningTemplate:WikiProject MiningMining
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Companies Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Companies, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of companies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CompaniesWikipedia:WikiProject CompaniesTemplate:WikiProject Companiescompany

Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Companies To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Companies
Assess : Category:Unassessed company articles
Copyedit : Category:Company articles needing attention
Infobox : Category:Company articles needing infoboxes
Maintain : Portal:Companies
Stubs : Help expand stub articles located at Category:Company stubs
Other :
- Tag company articles with the {{portal|Companies}} template
- Tag company talk pages with the {{WikiProject Companies}} project banner
- Answer requests for comments

Energy Mid‑importance

	Energy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Energy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Energy on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EnergyWikipedia:WikiProject EnergyTemplate:WikiProject Energyenergy
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States: Arizona Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Arizona portal This article is supported by WikiProject Arizona (assessed as Mid-importance).

Untitled

i have edited out bias only. a more detailed desciption of the company forthcoming. -jrschroeder

---

Should be modified that it is not the world's biggest Copper producer, as Chile's state owned CODELCO is still the biggest. --194.203.212.109 10:37, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unbalanced treatment, Grasberg mine

This portion of the article cites only the case against Freeport and alleged violations by the company. There is no balancing argument from Freeport, and no sources are cited. Clear NPOV violations, and I have tagged accordingly. The Grasberg mine article is more balanced, and should be cited and sumarized on this page. I'll get to it some day, but perhaps someone else will cleanup first (I hope ;-) Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 01:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm gradually working through the article, adding new material (eg, McMoRan Exploration) and trying to eliminate the POV & make it encyclopedic. Comments and HELP welcome [grin]. --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:02, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I ran throught the article and worked on the bias bits, while adding a link to the main article. I think it's ok now. Lfstevens (talk) 04:59, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Name of page

The company's website does NOT have a capital "R" like this article does.

It has: Freeport-McMoran

What is the deal?

WikiDon (talk) 00:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, although the website does use lowercase 'r' in the HTML header title element, it certainly is uppercased in the logo, also on their website. And also when named in the body of the text. My guess? Lack of attention to detail on the part of their web people. But it's not a wiki, so I can't fix it for them. --J. Randall Owens | (talk) 22:58, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Anybody know the history of the curious McMoRan name? TIA --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:04, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Answering my own question -- made up from names of the founding three partners: Mc (somebody) Mo (ffett), current Chairman, Ran (kin), then a landman, now a Sr. manager in McMoRan Exploration, ims. Cheers --Pete Tillman (talk) 21:00, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mc(Williams)-[Deceased] Mo(ffett) Ran(kin) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.176.208.75 (talk) 22:39, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Operations percentages

Could someone who knows, explain or at least link to an explanation, what those percentages are after the locations in the Operations section? I suppose my best guess would be how much of the site is owned by F-M? --J. Randall Owens | (talk) 22:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You guessed right, and done --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:16, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deepest Drilling Claim

The statement about Freeport's well in the Gulf being the "deepest ever recorded" contradicts the WP page on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which says the deepest penetration recorded was Kola's, at 39,370 ft. This is deeper than Freeport's at 32,550. I am not an expert on the subject matter so I will not change anything, but wanted to note the apparent contradiction. If anyone can clarify, I think it would be helpful. --Kadin2048 (talk) 22:08, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, and I've edited article accordingly. --Pete Tillman 20:12, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Project Censored

I've removed this (preserved below) as polemic rather than encyclopedic material. It reads like a conspiracy-theory tract, and I note that Project Censored supports 9/11 conspirace theories - see their page Chrismorey (talk) 07:55, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism of board members by Project Censored

Project Censored has stated that: "The board of directors of Freeport-McMoRan represents a portion of the global 1 percent who not only control the largest gold and copper mining company in the world, but who are also interconnected by board membership with over two dozen major multinational corporations, banks, foundations, military, and policy groups. This twelve-member board is a tight network of individuals who are interlocked with—and influence the policies of—other major companies controlling approximately $200 billion in annual revenues."^[1]

References

^ "The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class". Project Censored. August 22, 2012.^{[unreliable source?]}

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Freeport-McMoRan. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20151118095633/http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxicair_current/ to http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxicair_current/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 11:40, 5 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested Updates

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

I’m Marshall Manson. I work for communications advisory firm Brunswick, and we act for Freeport McMoRan, a NYSE listed company. In our effort to comply with Wikipedia's rules around COI editing, I am writing to request an update to the information about the company's leadership. Gerald J. Ford is no longer Chair, and Richard Adkerson is now Chairman and CEO. You can find citation for this change here.

Would it be possible to update the entry to reflect this change in leadership?

In addition, I thought you might want to consider adding a further bullet point to the 'Past Holdings' section. Here is some language in case it is helpful:

→In December 2020, Freeport completed the sale of its interests in the Kisanfu undeveloped project in Democratic Republic of Congo to a wholly owned subsidiary of China Molybdenum Co., Ltd. for $550 million.

There are several sources reporting this news, but you can find an exemplar source here.

Many thanks for your consideration of this request.

Tmmanson (talk) 14:01, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done I was updating 2021 financials and noticed the leadership change, so the infobox has been updated for both. I've also separately added the Kisanfu sale to the 'Past holdings' section, but I re-used the existing Reuters citations. Ptrnext (talk) 19:21, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class". Project Censored. August 22, 2012.^{[unreliable source?]}

[1]