Business Segments

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2023

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Business Segments

BUSINESS SEGMENTS

FCX has organized its mining operations into four primary divisions - North America copper mines, South America mining, Indonesia mining and Molybdenum mines, and operating segments that meet certain thresholds are reportable segments. Separately disclosed in the following tables are FCX’s reportable segments, which include the Morenci and Cerro Verde copper mines, the Grasberg minerals district (Indonesia Mining), the Rod & Refining operations and Atlantic Copper Smelting & Refining.

Intersegment sales between FCX’s business segments are based on terms similar to arms-length transactions with third parties at the time of the sale. Intersegment sales may not be reflective of the actual prices ultimately realized because of a variety of factors, including additional processing, timing of sales to unaffiliated customers and transportation premiums.

FCX defers recognizing profits on sales from its mines to other segments, including Atlantic Copper Smelting & Refining and, through December 31, 2022, on 39.5% of PT-FI’s sales to PT Smelting, until final sales to third parties occur. Quarterly variations in ore grades, the timing of intercompany shipments and changes in product prices result in variability in FCX’s net deferred profits and quarterly earnings.

Beginning January 1, 2023, PT-FI's commercial arrangement with PT Smelting converted from a concentrate sales agreement to a tolling arrangement. Under this arrangement, PT-FI pays PT Smelting a tolling fee to smelt and refine its concentrate and PT-FI retains title to all products for sale to third parties (i.e., there are no further sales from PT-FI to PT Smelting). While the new tolling agreement with PT Smelting does not significantly change PT-FI’s economics, it impacted the timing of PT-FI’s first-quarter 2023 sales and working capital requirements, as a portion of PT-FI’s first-quarter 2023 production was deferred in inventory and will be sold as refined metal in future periods.

FCX allocates certain operating costs, expenses and capital expenditures to its operating divisions and individual segments. However, not all costs and expenses applicable to an operation are allocated. U.S. federal and state income taxes are recorded and managed at the corporate level (included in Corporate, Other & Eliminations), whereas foreign income taxes are recorded and managed at the applicable country level. In addition, most mining exploration and research activities are managed on a consolidated basis, and those costs, along with some selling, general and administrative costs, are not allocated to the operating divisions or individual segments. Accordingly, the following Financial Information by Business Segment reflects management determinations that may not be indicative of what the actual financial performance of each operating division or segment would be if it was an independent entity.

Product Revenues. FCX’s revenues attributable to the products it sold for the first quarters of 2023 and 2022 follow (in millions):

	Three Months Ended
	March 31,
	2023		2022
Copper:
Concentrate	$	1,587	$	2,691
Cathode	1,327		1,435
Rod and other refined copper products	921		1,116
Purchased coppera	204		70
Molybdenum	592		378
Gold	531		811
Otherb	133		188
Adjustments to revenues:
Treatment chargesc	(101)		(133)
Royalty expensed	(60)		(95)
PT-FI export dutiese	(18)		(98)		f
Revenues from contracts with customers	5,116		6,363
Embedded derivativesg	273		240
Total consolidated revenues	$	5,389	$	6,603

a.FCX purchases copper cathode primarily for processing by its Rod & Refining operations.

b.Primarily includes revenues associated with silver.

c.First-quarter 2023 treatment charges exclude tolling costs paid to PT Smelting, which are recorded as production costs in the consolidated statements of income.

d.Reflects royalties on sales from PT-FI and Cerro Verde that will vary with the volume of metal sold and prices.

e.Refer to Note 8 for further discussion of PT-FI export duties.

f.Includes a charge of $18 million associated with an adjustment to prior-period export duties.

g.Refer to Note 6 for discussion of embedded derivatives related to FCX’s provisionally priced copper concentrate and cathode sales contracts.