It may not be necessary to lay thousands of miles of new copper cables to tackle this problem.
The firm has introduced a new copper calendar swaps contract and also is embarking upon an educational program to increase awareness of copper options.
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And though Chile has developed new exports, copper made up 42% of its 1997 total.
Rio Tinto announced deals with its partners in China , including the creation of a joint venture with Chinalco to seek new sources of copper and coking coal.
Two little words that could potentially give new life to copper, at least in the high-speed internet department, have found their way into the news once again, and this time it's Comcast who's showing us just what channel bonding can do.
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Yet the express purpose of the new ETFs is to take copper off a market that is already tight, bringing investors and industrial consumers into direct competition for supplies.
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Freeport McMoran Copper now faces a new problem related to its Indonesian mining operations.
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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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In base metals, copper imports actually set a new record of 406, 937 metric tons.
Speculators take the hot new money and bid for gold, copper, platinum.
The newer upstarts are creating what amounts to an entirely new business: fibre-optics not copper, the Internet not normal telephony, dealing with customers not regulators.
Kevin Youkilis was there, but now a Yankee, and thus deprived of his magical copper goatee thanks to his new club's prohibition on beards and goatees.
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If there is demand for houses, there will be demand for copper, and the copper miner will buy a new earth mover and employ a driver to run it.
Suddenly a lone inventor rides in from what comes to be known as Copper Valley with a stunning new connection system that's easy to use, highly dependable and an order of magnitude cheaper than existing methods.
The ocean floor off the coast of Papua New Guinea is expected to be mined for copper by the end of the decade.
Over millions of years this created an oxygen-rich atmosphere that rapidly removed electrons from minerals near the surface, creating rust out of iron and forming thousands of new minerals from other metals like nickel, copper and uranium.
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.
As the revenues continue to pour in from copper, fruit, and wine exports, and new businesses flourish, construction will continue in Santiago.
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It is thought thieves who stole lead from church roofs and copper from rail lines have moved on to a new target.
Amidst the turbulence, "Copper" hopes to illustrate where America, and New York, came from by showing such a pivotal point in the city's history.
In the case of the most-active copper contract traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Tuesday was the first rise in nine trading sessions, although volume was small with electronic activity only as trading floors remained closed due to Hurricane Sandy.
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In 2001, the top 50 probable copper mine projects totaled more than 7 million tons of new production.
With its new proton, the nickel has gained stability as another element: copper.
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To assemble these little critters, Ibiden has developed its own plastic resins and a new process for building up layers of plastic that contain intricate patterns of copper wiring (see diagram).
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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The stadium, velodrome and Copper Box venues are still on the park and getting ready for new uses, but the hockey and basketball arenas plus the world's biggest McDonald's are gone.
My portfolio covers copper, iron ore and coal, namely Rio Tinto--making new highs.
Graphene is far stronger than steel, more conductive than copper and more flexible than rubber so it could potentially open up entirely new avenues for manufacturing, consumer products and medical devices.
Commerzbank analysts said copper struggled to gain on the recent positive Chinese economic data over into the new week of trading.
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