Candelaria, a Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold company, provides infrastructure for community in Chile

September 3, 2013 /3BL Media/ - Candelaria, a Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold company, joined the festivities marking the recent Chilean Indigenous New Year, providing a water well and water rights, electric generator and discharge pump to the nearby community of Colla Serranía Poblete.

The well and equipment will help ensure a critical water supply for the community’s agricultural activities.

Community representatives expressed their appreciation for the project by performing a ritual in honor of Pacha Mama, or Mother Earth, as part of the New Year celebrations.

Constructing the water well and providing this equipment reaffirms Freeport-McMoRan’s commitment to the development of the native people of Atacama.

For further information about Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.’s social investment commitments, please see: http://www.fcx.com/sd/community/comm_invest.htm

Please see the 2012 Working Toward Sustainable Development Report for more information on Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.’s social, economic and environmental efforts: http://www.fcx.com/sd/pdfs/WTSD_2012.pdf