Indonesia Now Demands Fines from Miners Over Smelting Decision
After agreeing temporarily to back away earlier this week from requiring mining companies to construct smelters domestically to process ore, delaying the requirement to 2017, the Indonesian government now will demand that the mining concerns pay punishing taxes if they don’t build the smelters.
The target is companies that promise to build smelters so th…
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