Macquarie Research says current copper supply shortages are a main reason we could see higher copper prices in the near future.
We expect the copper market to tighten substantially over H2 and for prices to hit new highs later in the year.
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We noted that copper experts were reporting that there were only 4 trading days of inventory in copper at the London Metals Exchange and in Shanghai.
The lutetium oxide from which the crystals are made (in only a slightly updated process from the way we all made copper sulphate crystals in high school chemistry classes) all came from China.
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After getting some quality time with a prototype of the new device, we found the copper-colored buttons and speaker grill running along its right side to form an intriguing design, but the overall fit and finish -- not to mention the lack of a backlight for the screen -- demonstrated that it wasn't quite ready for primetime.
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Though copper and gold prices stagnated for a brief period during April-May, we expect that the Chinese demand for copper will increase by the year end pushing up the average realized prices for the metals.
Before that we could only produce copper metal from deposits of copper sulfides.
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"The law was put on the books back in the '70s when we were using the copper-wire telephone, " he said.
This really was the case, absolutely so, back in the days of the main network being copper rather than the fibre optics we use today for those main cables.
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We estimate that the consolidated copper sales will be 3.9 billion pounds and 1.6 million ounces for gold during 2011.
We face a tough six to eight months, but towards the end of the year we should touch bottom on copper, aluminum and zinc.
We currently forecast that annual copper sales from the Indonesian mine will increase gradually towards 1.3 billion pounds by the end of our forecast period.
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Now, with it, we could do so from copper oxides.
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It used to be that we got all of our copper either from the very small deposits of pure metallic copper or from the larger deposits of copper sulfides.
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The three grammes of copper in the 1 rupee coin (we are talking about the older style, the Jinnah on one side, Badshahi Masjid on the other, a brown colour, not the newer silvery looking coin) therefore has a refined value of 2.64 US cents.
Morgan Chase has been accumulating more than 50% of all the copper stored in London warehouses and is holding it for clients, who are clearly betting that the shortage we disclosded some days ago, would lead to a major spike in global copper prices.
Look at the old mandates that require the firms we used to call telephone companies to maintain their copper-wire phone lines and voice-call switching infrastructure.
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Here we are photographed while on safari at the Kilembe copper mines near the astounding snow-capped peaks of the Mountains of the Moon and the Queen Elizabeth Game Park.
And we knew very well that there were vast mountains of copper oxides out there.
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We can talk about the productivity of energy usage, copper, food.
Mr. JIM DICKSON (CEO, Copper Queen Community Hospital, Bisbee, Arizona): On any given day we have 3, 000 to 4, 000 immigrants crossing the border here.
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.
Elsewhere, we have bought a majority stake in Kansanshi, arguably the largest undeveloped copper resource in the world, with the Zambian government as our minority partner.
We discussed the impact of this situation in our article Freeport Plagued by Lower Copper Ore Quality.
And we can use fibre optic cable for the telephone cables and thus have more copper to use for the water pipes.
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This, we think, could lead to a correction in key commodities like oil, copper, but even potentially precious metals, where a lot of people have been hiding, like gold and silver.
It's never happened before that we've fired a very large bullet that's made largely of copper and aluminum, the size of a washing machine, at a comet that's about--the comet's nucleus is about four or five miles across--to make a big crater.
"We've seen reports of people who have not had a previous interest in copper--the military, utilities--saying, 'This looks like a good opportunity, let's buy some, '" says Jon Barnes of CRU Analysis.
We continue to capture all opportunities possible related to the ongoing and broadening transition from gold to copper and look ahead at wedge bonder volume improvements, LED expansion and advanced packaging growth opportunities.
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