By 2020, when it will be producing 450, 000 tonnes of copper a year, which will be sold across the nearby Chinese border, it is expected to account for a staggering one-third of Mongolia's GDP.
All this is justified commercially by the expectation that this mine will produce 450, 000 tonnes of copper a year, making it one of the world's five biggest mines, as well as being a big gold producer.
In Peru the Hallgarten analysts are fans of Northern Peru Copper, whose test bores show a sizable reserve of 7.3 billion pounds of copper and a mine life of 20 years.
Freeport McMoRan will get only 3 tonnes of copper from a 360-tonne truckload at its Irian Jaya copper mine in Indonesia.
When I was a kid, I tested this by taking a battery, a copper wire, and a nail.
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Well, if you want to invest in copper, a good choice is Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) as well as the Global X Copper Miners ETF (NYSE:COPX).
The plain-talking Lancastrian wanted his officers to regard him as a copper first, rather than a politician.
Lightning is famously reluctant to strike twice, but Kickstarter seems intent on at least kitting Fargo and his contemporaries out with a lot of copper wire and a really big kite.
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Copper saw a price drop and also saw speculators slice net-long positions accordingly.
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Copper saw a decrease in the net-long for the managed-money accounts, too.
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Barrick Gold also produced 82 million pounds of copper, a drop from the 98 million pounds produced in the fourth quarter of 2009.
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Yet the express purpose of the new ETFs is to take copper off a market that is already tight, bringing investors and industrial consumers into direct competition for supplies.
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Copper hit a limit-down move overnight in Shanghai.
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This 51% ownership rule will cause a 14% reduction on copper reserves and a 49% reduction on gold reserves and no impact on molybdenum, as Grasberg has no molybdenum.
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Its union with Freeport, it said, would benefit from strong global demand for copper, alongside a scarcity of large-scale copper development projects.
In order that the foil does not fall apart, each transparent ring is actually a series of curved slots in the copper rather than a continuous gap.
As a consequence, Nexans not only has limited exposure to the collapsed telecoms market, but also has a strong position in copper telecoms cables, a subject of renewed interest among telecoms companies keen to find new uses for traditional cables.
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Suddenly a lone inventor rides in from what comes to be known as Copper Valley with a stunning new connection system that's easy to use, highly dependable and an order of magnitude cheaper than existing methods.
Given a copper price last year well over twice the estimated long term price, Chile had a fiscal surplus of the order of 9% of GNP.
His special report The Copper Ring investigated a multi-billion dollar international fraud designed to manipulate the world's copper markets.
Congo's has a catanga cross (a large copper cross), while Equatorial Guinea has a pair of cowrie shells.
Meanwhile, a large drum of copper cable was stolen after a lorry driver was ambushed in Kent on Thursday.
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Macquarie Research says current copper supply shortages are a main reason we could see higher copper prices in the near future.
None of his companies is listed?except for a small copper-and-gold play in which he holds a small stake?and valuing assets such as real estate and undeveloped mining properties in Mongolia is more than tricky.
Avery followed that up with the Dictators: three powerful beers dubbed the Maharaja (a hoppy, dark amber ale), the Kaiser (a deep copper, traditional Oktoberfest brew) and the Czar (a robust stout with hints of toffee and mocha).
After spending a few weeks bearish on copper, speculators are taking a keener view of the metal.
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In this invisible world, tiny particles of gold melt at temperatures several hundred degrees lower than a large nugget, and copper, which is normally a good conductor of electricity, can become resistant in thin layers in the presence of a magnetic field.
If you trade on advance information about a copper deposit, you are clearly guilty.
Scientists used the microscope to control a tiny, super-sharp needle along a copper surface, IBM said.
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