Set in a handsome copper-roofed villa on Valkosaari island, overlooking Helsinki harbour, NJK is feted as the capital's best crayfish restaurant, serving up more than 30, 000 of these fire-engine red crustaceans every season.

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In base metals, copper imports actually set a new record of 406, 937 metric tons.

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From January, 5p and 10p coins are set to be minted using steel instead of copper and will be 11% thicker.

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Instead of laying copper cables, network operators would set up far less expensive WiMax towers, and then install WiMax telephones in subscribers' homes.

ECONOMIST: Wireless telecoms

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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Barclays believes that copper mine production will be better in 2012, but cautions that nothing is set in stone.

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