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FREEPORT-MCMORAN: Declares Dividends on Preferred, Common Stocks
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. has declared these quarterly cash dividends payable on Feb. 1, 2008, to holders of record as of Jan. 15, 2008:
-- US$0.4375 per share of FCX's Common Stock.
-- US$1.6875 per share of FCX's 6_% Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock.
-- US$13.75 per share of FCX's 5«% Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX) -- http://www.fcx.com/ -- is an international mining industry leader based in North America with large, long-lived, geographically diverse assets and significant proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum. Freeport- McMoRan has one of the most dynamic portfolios of operating, expansion and growth projects in the copper mining industry. The Grasberg mine in Indonesia, the world's largest copper and gold mine in terms of reserves, is the company's key asset. Freeport-McMoRan also operates significant mining operations in North and South America and is developing the world-class Tenke Fungurume project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The completion of Freeport-McMoran's acquisition further expands the company's global operations. The former Phelps Dodge Corp. has mining operations in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, among others.
As reported in the Troubled Company Reporter-Latin America on Oct. 1, 2007, Moody's Investors Service revised Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.'s outlook to positive and affirmed all of its other ratings. The ratings reflect the overall probability of default of Freeport, to which Moody's assigns a PDR of Ba2.
Ratings affirmed:
Issuer: Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
-- Corporate Family Rating: Ba2;
-- Probability of Default Rating: Ba2;
-- US$0.5 billion Senior Secured Revolving Credit facility, Baa2, LGD1, 2%;
-- US$1.0 billion Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility, Baa3, LGD2, 17%;
-- US$2.45 billion Senior Secured Term Loan A, Baa3, LGD2, 17%;
-- US$339.7 million 6.875% Senior Secured Notes due 2014, Baa3, LGD2, 17%; and
-- US$6 billion Senior Unsecured Notes: Ba3, LGD5, 80%.
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