Percentage of deferred intercompany profit on sales to equity method investee.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Percent of net assets at close of period. For schedules of investments that are categorized, each category has a percent of net assets for the aggregated value of the Investments in the category.

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BUSINESS SEGMENTS INFORMATION (Business Segments Narrative) (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2016	Nov. 03, 2014
Candelaria and Ojos del Salado Mining Complex
Mining Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Ownership percentage		80.00%
Indonesia \| Cost of Goods, Product Line \| Supplier Concentration Risk \| Atlantic Copper Smelting & Refining
Mining Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage	3.00%
North America \| Inventory, Copper Metal Production \| Product Concentration Risk \| Morenci
Mining Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage	46.00%
North America \| Cost of Goods, Product Line \| Supplier Concentration Risk \| Atlantic Copper Smelting & Refining
Mining Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage	13.00%
South America \| Inventory, Copper Metal Production \| Product Concentration Risk \| Cerro Verde
Mining Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage	83.00%
South America \| Cost of Goods, Product Line \| Supplier Concentration Risk \| Atlantic Copper Smelting & Refining
Mining Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk percentage	7.00%
PT Smelting
Mining Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Deferred intercompany profit	25.00%
PT Smelting \| Indonesia
Mining Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Ownership percentage	25.00%
Morenci
Mining Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Ownership percentage	72.00%