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JAKARTA Oct 10 (Reuters) - Police fired warning shots in the air and a protester died on Monday during a demonstration involving thousands of mine workers at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Grasberg mine in Indonesia, a union official said.
Disgruntled workers seeking better pay and conditions at the world's third biggest copper mine have been on strike since Sept. 15, reducing mining, processing and concentrate shipments from Grasberg.
Union official Virgo Solossa said two workers were shot, and one later died in hospital as thousands of the miners pushed to enter their barracks to unload their belongings.
It was unclear who had shot the men, Solossa said. Freeport officials were not immediately available for comment.
Mine workers burned two trailers after their colleague was killed, according to local television footage seen by Reuters.
Unionised workers, about half of Freeport's 23,000 Indonesian workers, decided last week to remain on strike until Nov. 15, making this the longest stoppage in Indonesia's mining industry.
Miners in other developing nations have walked off the job this year to demand better pay as corporate profits surged.
Freeport, the world's largest publicly traded copper miner, is also facing a strike at its sprawling Peruvian Corro Verde mine. Union leaders last week failed to agree on a wage deal that would settle the strike.
Freeport Indonesia said last week that more employees had reported for work, and that it had scaled up mining and milling output and concentrate sales.
Union officials had planned to continue talks with the company after mediation ended in a deadlock two weeks ago.
The strike has entered its fourth week and the last time workers went on an eight-day strike in July, the company suffered production loss of 35 million lb (15,876 tonnes) of copper and 60,000 ounces of gold.
The company said last month it was unlikely to meet third-quarter sales estimates due to the industrial action.
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