And because of that increase in investment, its demand for things like iron and copper shot up and that created additional investment in countries like Peru, Australia and Brazil.
Both the iron ore and copper industries have seen China importing more goods and stockpiling.
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The desperate search for upside earnings surprises even embraces mining properties covering coal, iron ore and copper.
There are mountains of iron ore and copper covering parking lots and spilling over into the streets.
But he put his training to work, filling empty iron- and copper-ore ships with lime and selling it to mines that exported the ore (lime is used to neutralize acid used in mining).
Malaysia is the world's largest producer of palm oil--a cheaper substitute for vegetable or sunflower oil--and it is also blessed with an abundance of forestry, fertile agricultural land and minerals like copper and iron ore.
The metals and coal sectors aren't demand driven, but they are price sensitive to the dearth of incremental supply, particularly coal, iron ore and even copper with all its mine outages.
For Glenstrata it is whether the rise in price and increases in demand for copper, iron and coal and all those other feedstocks of the still fast-growing Chinese economy can go on forever.
Strong FAI is bullish for commodities demand as increased industrial activity and construction gobbles up more cement, iron ore, crude oil and copper.
It started with gold years ago and now embraces copper, iron ore, coal and grains.
There are handfuls of newly minted billionaires covering real estate and natural resources like oil, copper, iron ore and coal.
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As China has become more industrialized, it has become Australia's biggest trading partner and buyer of its commodities, including raw materials such as copper and iron ore.
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When you look at major parts of the economy like technology, health care, basic industries, energy and even raw materials producers of copper, iron ore and chemicals, you find them flooded with cash.
He'd get off the train at the city dumps, eat mulligan stew with the hoboes and forage for copper, brass and iron to sell as scrap.
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.
Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (nyse: RIO - news - people ), which mines iron ore, nickel and copper, among other things, has risen seventeenfold since 2003.
Rio Tinto competes with global metals and mining giants like Vale, BHP, Freeport McMoran and other companies that mine bauxite, copper, coal and iron ore.
Rio Tinto, the global mining giant, competes primarily with global metals and mining giants like Vale, BHP Billiton, Freeport McMoran and other companies that mine bauxite, copper, coal and iron ore.
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While it appears a truism to state that commodity prices are set to continue their bull runs in the first half of 2011, a more precise look coming from one of the most interested parties in the game, Rio Tinto, provides additional support and key insight into risks facing prices for iron ore, coal, copper, and aluminum.
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Rio Tinto competes primarily with global metals and mining giants like Vale, BHP, Freeport McMoran and other companies like Cliffs Resources that mine bauxite, copper, coal and iron ore.
Mining for iron, copper, gold and coal is the keystone of the Western Australia economy.
State-owned companies are bargain-hunting for copper and iron ore in more stable places like Zambia and Liberia.
Inventories for coal, copper and iron ore as well as oil are too high based on current consumption.
People also need to trade with friends to get resources such as oil, copper, iron and uranium, in order to build their empires.
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China is undergoing a sweeping infrastructure build-out that has created an almost insatiable demand for coal, copper and iron ore (for steel production).
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Commodities like oil, copper and iron ore just relapsed and both metallurgical and steam coal spot prices stick in the dumps despite serious cutbacks in production, worldwide.
Together, the argument goes, the two companies could better direct scarce resources to extract iron, copper, nickel and so on where the most value is to be gained, and do so faster than they could individually.
As already made clear by my colleague Robert Lenzner in repeated columns, market forces are in place for a spike in iron ore, copper, and coal prices, while aluminum prices are also set to tread higher.
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While this may have been good news for Nepal, Indian industry claims the market was flooded with exports of hydrogenated vegetable oil, acrylic yarns, iron pipes, copper wire and zinc oxide, which India claims has hurt its market.
Prices on iron ore, copper, coal and other minerals are nearing all-time highs.
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