All major copper mining companies are currently ramping up production to cash-in on rising copper prices.
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The oil and gas upstream business can give potentially much higher returns than copper mining.
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There has been concern for some time about growth opportunities in the copper mining business.
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But there was just as much anger over the destruction of the hills, an inevitable consequence of copper mining.
The gold and copper mining industries that rose and fell with such spectacular suddenness are still in the dumps.
Silver Wheaton signs long-term purchase agreements with mining companies (typically gold and copper mining companies) that produce silver as a by-product.
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In 1969, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda announced nationalization of copper mining companies, key to Zambia's economy contributing over 50 percent of government revenue.
Inmet and Lundin are mid-size Canadian copper mining companies.
Based in Pheonix, Phelps Dodge has copper mining operations in the U.S., Chile, Peru and Congo, while New Orleans-based Freeport operates the vast open-pit Grasberg gold, copper, and silver mine in Indonesia, and has reserves of about 37 billion pounds of copper and 40 million ounces of gold.
We continue to recommend Freeport-McMoran, the largest publicly traded copper producer(FCX), December 2011 calls in copper futures, two Chinese coppper companies, Jiangxi Copper and Philex Mining.
Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early 19th centuries as a result of the rapid growth of pioneering copper and tin mining.
The expansion of copper and gold mining in Chile and Peru has mainly occurred in arid areas and has led to competition for scarce water with both export agriculture and the needs of the indigenous population.
Freeport derives 78% of its mining revenue from copper, 12% from gold and 6% from molybdenum.
Freeport competes with other miners such as the Southern Copper, Codelco and Newmont Mining.
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Coal mining accounts for 90% of sales at Joy's underground division and 33% at its surface-mining unit (copper and other ores account for the rest).
For example, Turkish mining law is investment-friendly, as there is little bureaucratic control, an easy permitting process, and lower fees, and allows broader activities for companies involved in mining gold, copper and boron.
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The fact that the metal is currently priced at an all-time high suggests that Freeport, and its competitors like Southern Copper, Codelco and Newmont Mining, can expect high revenue figures for this year.
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Mining for iron, copper, gold and coal is the keystone of the Western Australia economy.
And Acosta vows to revise all the mining concessions, which affect several publicly traded Canadian companies preparing to unearth gold and copper, to allow Ecuadorians to vote on whether they want mining operations near their homes or not.
Sterlite, a subsidiary of the UK-based Vedanta mining group, runs a copper smelter in Tuticorin town.
Copper and oil prices were lower and mining stocks slumped, with the decline reinforced by disappointing manufacturing data from China.
The company is engaged in exploration for, and mining and sale of coal, copper and other minerals.
Exxon Mobil is engaged in exploration for, and mining and sale of coal, copper and other minerals.
Considered intelligent and devious, he followed his interests in mining, eventually forming the United Copper Company in 1902.
Currently, mining -- particularly diamonds, copper, gold, zinc, lead, uranium -- constitutes more than 12% of Namibia's GDP, according to government figures.
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The cross is made of carbon and resin and will be finished in gold, silver and copper to reflect Cornwall's history of mining.
Freeport competes with Southern Copper, Codelco, Barrick Gold and Newmont Mining.
However, for the past few years the price of tin has been rising and Crofty's current Canadian owner, the Celeste Copper Corporation (CCC), wants to resume mining.
Freeport McMoran Copper now faces a new problem related to its Indonesian mining operations.
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The desperate search for upside earnings surprises even embraces mining properties covering coal, iron ore and copper.
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