Engineering firm profiles Indonesia

Denver-based Pincock, Allen & Holt has published a 2-volume study of the economic potential of Indonesia, aimed at mining executives.

Indonesia: A Country Profile, produced in association with International Business Strategies, includes two full-color,

digitized, GIS-based wall maps showing the location and geology of 127 actual and potential producers of gold and copper. Also included is an analysis of Indonesia’s political, economic and mining investment climate.

Indonesia is the fourth-largest country, and the largest

archipelago, in the world. It comprises five main islands, as well as 30 smaller archipelagoes totalling 13,667 islands, of which only about 6,000 are inhabited.

The terrain is very diverse, with mountains reaching heights of 16,000 ft. Infrastructure development projects are expanding the existing port capacity in order to facilitate increased exports of mineral and energy products.

The mineral and energy sectors are critical to the nation’s

economic development and receive considerable foreign investment from Asia, Europe and North America. These sectors account for about 40% of Indonesia’s foreign exchange earnings and about 40% of the government’s tax revenues.

Over the past five years, interest in mining has increased

markedly.

In 1994, for example, there was a significant increase in the production of coal, copper, gold and bauxite as Indonesia began to emerge as a country with potential for large copper and gold deposits.

Numerous multinational mining consortia have expanded their land holdings in various parts of the country, leading to an increased number of copper, nickel and gold mines. And many of these are expected to increase capacity.

For more information, phone (303) 986-6950, or fax (303)

987-8907.