Grasberg Mine: Inside Indonesia’s “Mountain Of Gold”

At 14,000 feet, in the remote jungles of New Guinea is the largest gold and copper deposit in the world. Getting to that deposit and building a profitable mine was one of the biggest engineering challenges ever. Welcome to Progress -- the home of history's greatest leaps forward.

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