His special report The Copper Ring investigated a multi-billion dollar international fraud designed to manipulate the world's copper markets.
Copper-market analysts believe that Zaire's high-grade ore could help create a world surplus of copper by the end of the decade, and bring prices down heavily.
Australia is also home to Olympic Dam, the fourth largest copper deposit in the world.
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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.
The merged company will be involved in the development of two world class copper projects: Tenke Fungurume in Congo in which Lundin holds a 24% stake (Freeport McMoRan is the majority partner) and Cobre Panama which is 74% controlled by Inmet.
It is the largest producer of copper, gold and molybdenum in the world, satisfying 9% of the global demand for copper.
MacMillan estimates world consumption of copper to rise 4% this year, the first uptick in three years.
Mining is big business in Peru, which is a major world producer of copper, silver, gold and other minerals.
Turquoise Hill is right on the doorstep of China, which last year sucked up 2.25 million tonnes of copper, making it the world's largest consumer.
Turquoise Hill is right on the doorstep of China, which last year sucked up 2.5 million tons of copper, making it the world's largest consumer.
China was stocking all the copper it could get on world metals markets or from large producers like Freeport McMoran, FCX on the NYSE.
For Anastasia Griffith, the world of "Copper" came to life as she was laced tightly into her corset, learning to breathe as her character, socialite Elizabeth Haverford, would breathe.
Freeport's Grasberg mine has one of the biggest copper and gold reserves in the world.
Since BHP already runs the world's biggest copper mine at Escondida in Chile, the purchase gives it two of the top four.
So is the scale of the logistical challenge of building one of the world's biggest copper mines in the middle of the desert.
Chile is a positive example of how to use money generated from resource extraction, creating a stable budget long term: a commission of experts conservatively estimates the world market price of copper for the decade to come.
He also found the world's largest gold and copper mine: the Grasberg Mine in Indonesia.
Now these countries account for a third of world consumption in commodities such as copper.
Problems at BHP , Australia's largest company and the world's second-largest copper producer, came to a head.
Until a couple of years ago, America was the world's biggest consumer of copper, used in electrical wiring and the like.
Experts on London's commodity exchanges claim that so much Russian nickel, aluminum and copper is being dumped on the market that world prices are depressed.
Last week, the mere mention of a strike by workers at Codelco Norte, Chile's state-owned mining group and the world's largest producer of copper, caused prices to surge even higher because of fears that supplies would become shorter still.
Half of the workers at Grasberg, one of the largest copper- and gold-producing mines in the world, stepped off the job in mid-September.
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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.
Rio Tinto (nyse: RTP - news - people ), based in London, is one of the most diversified mining companies in the world, with huge reserves of iron ore, copper, aluminum and uranium.
China is the world's largest consumer of base metals such as copper, and any signs that growth in the region is faltering tend to be taken negatively by investors.
Glencore and Xstrata, the world's biggest exporter of thermal coal which also produces copper, nickel and zinc, agreed last year on a merger that would create an industry giant.
Put simply, on the world market, it takes more cheap dollars to buy a pound of copper than when it was more valued.
That's when all eyes will turn to the 6-foot-high copper chimney erected atop the Sistine Chapel to pipe out puffs of smoke to tell the world if there's a new pope.
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