The rise outpaces 0.3% gains in gold and copper, and platinum was higher earlier in the day even when gold and copper were in negative territory.
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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.
On Jan. 15, Wheaton announced it will acquire interests in the Bajo de la Alumbrera gold-copper mine in Argentina and the Peak gold mine in Australia.
The open interest on gold and copper almost doubled from their lows earlier this year.
Wheat grew the most, rising 13 percent, followed by single-digit rises from corn, gold and copper.
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He also found the world's largest gold and copper mine: the Grasberg Mine in Indonesia.
The silver panic spilled over into gold and copper as well, though to a much smaller degree.
The decline was due to higher gold and copper costs and lower realized copper prices, Barrick said.
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The Cost Applicable to Sales figures went up for both gold and copper.
The gold and copper mining industries that rose and fell with such spectacular suddenness are still in the dumps.
Other commodities sectors also suffered with gold, copper and zinc prices all falling.
For the first nine months of the fiscal year, the company reported lower production figures for both gold and copper.
This was partially offset by a higher realized gold price, higher gold and copper sales volumes and lower income taxes.
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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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Cover is essentially sedimentary rocks that sit atop any perspective deposits, concealing potential metals such as gold and copper in Australia.
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Villaroel, 27, had been employed two years as a mechanic at the San Jose gold and copper mine in northern Chile.
An accident at a major US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua has left workers trapped, officials say.
Speculators take the hot new money and bid for gold, copper, platinum.
Newmont reported a year-on-year decline in gold and copper production, although the company said it is on track to meet its targets for 2011.
Rescue work is continuing at a major US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia after a tunnel collapsed on Tuesday, trapping more than 20 workers.
Its obviously time for a full court press on all commodities exchanges as trading in gold, copper, metals, and agricultural products has become a massive asset class.
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Hellas Gold holds mining licenses for an area covering 317 square kilometers (122 square miles) with proven and probable reserves of lead, zinc, silver, gold and copper.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that the corporation hoped to exploit deposits of iron ore, gold and copper in other parts of the Tanzania to help fund its project.
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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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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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.
Mining giants like Rio Tinto, Freeport-McMoran and Glecore figured the roaring Chinese demand for raw materials would bail them out of any mega- takeover that meant borrowing a bundle of debt to diversify into aluminum or gold or copper was the path to growth, higher profits and ecstatic shareholders.
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The grab by Argentina for control its national oil company, YPF, should throw the fear of God into investors round the globe about the way revenue-hungry politicians are trying to cash in on the global boom in natural resources like oil, gold, copper, iron ore.
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They took the form of phonograph records: 12-inch gold-plated copper disks, engraved with directions to build a device that could play them.
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