In 1936, deep in the heart of New Guinea, a young Dutch geologist made remarkable discovery: a glistening black outcropping of high-grade copper ore. Although jean Jacques Dozy’s Ertsberg was the largest aboveground copper deposit ever found, it was so remote, he said, that it may as well have been “on the moon”. But after World War II, his dusty report reached Freeport Sulphur exploration chief Forbes Wilson, who was instantly captivated by this unlikely deposit. After pioneering a near-impossible road through the swamps and mountains of Irian Jaya, and negotiating the first foreign contract with Indonesia’s Suharto government, the company shipped its first Ertsberg copper in 1972. Fifteen years later, just a few kilometers from the original mine, Freeport geologists found Grasberg, a deposit with the largest gold reserves and third-largest copper reserves in the world.