Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX) today declared a cash
dividend of $0.3125 per share payable on August 1, 2012 to holders of
record as of July 13, 2012 for its common stock.
FCX is a leading international mining company with headquarters in
Phoenix, Arizona. FCX operates large, long-lived, geographically diverse
assets with significant proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and
molybdenum. FCX has a dynamic portfolio of operating, expansion and
growth projects in the copper industry and is the world’s largest
producer of molybdenum.
The company’s portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals
district, the world’s largest copper and gold mine in terms of
recoverable reserves; significant mining operations in the Americas,
including the large scale Morenci and Safford minerals districts in
North America and the Cerro Verde and El Abra operations in South
America; and the Tenke Fungurume minerals district in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Additional information about FCX is available on
FCX’s website at www.fcx.com.
