James Robert “Jim Bob” Moffett, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Freeport-McMoRan Inc., has died. He was 82. No cause was given in the statement released by the world’s largest listed copper producer. Moffett, a legendary wildcatter and geologist whose credits include the Grasberg copper deposit in Indonesia, built Freeport into a giant of the mining industry during his two decades as CEO and three decades as chairman. On his watch, the company rode an unprecedented commodities boom, expanding to challenge Codelco as the world’s biggest copper miner. “Jim Bob was a legend and visionary in the ... (full story)