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Income Taxes (Unaudited) (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Geographic Sources of Provision for Income Taxes

Geographic sources of FCX's benefit from (provision for) income taxes follow (in millions):

	Three Months Ended								Nine Months Ended
	September 30,								September 30,
	2016				2015				2016				2015
U.S. operations	$	331			$	356			$	293			$	2,020
International operations	(217		)		(7		)		(372		)		(258		)
Total	$	114			$	349			$	(79	)		$	1,762

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Tabular disclosure of the components of income tax expense attributable to continuing operations for each year presented including, but not limited to: current tax expense (benefit), deferred tax expense (benefit), investment tax credits, government grants, the benefits of operating loss carryforwards, tax expense that results from allocating certain tax benefits either directly to contributed capital or to reduce goodwill or other noncurrent intangible assets of an acquired entity, adjustments of a deferred tax liability or asset for enacted changes in tax laws or rates or a change in the tax status of the entity, and adjustments of the beginning-of-the-year balances of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstances that causes a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future years.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 9
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=65882285&loc=d3e32639-109319

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