Freeport 投資するing to mitigate 危険 from tailings dams -CEO
By Ernest Scheyder
HOLLYWOOD, Fla, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Freeport-McMoRan Inc 大統領 Richard Adkerson said on Monday his company has been 投資するing ひどく to mitigate any danger from tailings dams and is "comfortable" with 工学 designs in place at 存在するing dams.
Adkerson's comments come a month after a Brazilian tailings dam controlled by 競争相手 Vale 崩壊（する）d, 殺人，大当り more than 300.
投資家s have grown anxious in the wake of that 災害 about the rising 危険 of tailings dams, which are 効果的に depositories for the muddy detritus of the 採掘 過程. Of the three main types of tailings dams, Vale was using one considered the least 安全な at the 操作／手術 in Brazil that 崩壊（する）d.
"早期に on, we 認めるd this as a major 危険 area for our company," Adkerson said at an 産業 会議／協議会 in Florida. "Fundamentally, we're comfortable with the system that we have been putting in place in managing this 危険."
不死鳥／絶品-based Freeport 支配（する）／統制するs 19 active tailings dams in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and Peru, and 監視するs 55 inactive dams, 含むing some first built in the 19th century. 非，不，無 are in Brazil.
"We've 投資するd 意味ありげに in 埋め立てるing" those old 場所／位置s, Adkerson said, without 供給するing 明確な／細部 dollar 量s.
Freeport uses a mix of tailings dam designs, 含むing the one used by Vale in the Brazilian 災害.
Adkerson 強調する／ストレスd he feels that Freeport, the world's largest 公然と 貿易（する）d 巡査 生産者, has a superior 査察 system. German 会社／堅い T?V S?D has been faulted by Brazilian 公式の／役人s for 欠陥のある 査察s of Vale 施設s.
"The use of the system that we have designed mitigates the 危険 of 壊滅的な tailings 失敗s," Adkerson said.
どこかよそで, Adkerson, 72, repeated 最近の （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that he is not 利益／興味d in a large-規模 取得／買収 and has no 即座の 計画（する）s to retire.
"I'm enjoying work now a lot more than in 最近の years," said Adkerson, who 調印する ed a 取引，協定 late last year for Freeport to 放棄する 大多数 支配（する）／統制する of the world's second-largest 巡査 地雷 under 圧力 from the Indonesian 政府, even though the company will remain the 事業／計画（する）'s 操作者. That 取引，協定 took years to の近くに and had become a major 妨害 to Freeport's growth 選択s.
"I'm younger than Donald Trump and he's talking about a second 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語," he said.
(報告（する）／憶測ing by Ernest Scheyder; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)
