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...The business has also been hit by price collapses for diamonds and platinum as well as problems at its Quellaveco copper project in Peru that only started production in 2022....
...On this basis, its $21bn of copper assets are larger than its iron ore business....
...Morgan Stanley now expects mined copper output to fall 0.7 per cent this year. Macquarie, meanwhile, predicted this week that refined production growth for zinc would drop 0.4 per cent....
...Russia is a key producer of all three metals, generating 6 per cent of the world’s aluminium, 4 per cent of copper and 11 per cent of high purity nickel metal, according to Citigroup....
...Polska Miedz: shares in the copper miner and producer of precious and other non-ferrous metals rose 4.6 per cent in early trading, joining other miners in a sector-wide rally driven by rising metals prices...
...BHP, the world’s biggest mining group with a market capitalisation of A$229bn (US$149bn), is seeking to use an all-stock takeover of Anglo American to expand its portfolio of copper mines, according to people...
...Russia supplies about 6 per cent of the world’s aluminium, 5 per cent of nickel and 4 per cent of copper, according to CRU Group, a consultancy....
...The S&P 500 fell 0.2 per cent on Wednesday, with just over half of its stocks finishing higher....
...That’s because more than $4.5bn of ebitda disappeared from its platinum and nickel operations alone....
...In the summer of 2023, Rothschild bankers working for Zambia’s government were close to finalising a shortlist of buyers for a prized copper mine....
...Copper prices have dropped 4 per cent this year to about $8,000 a tonne, down from more than $10,000 at their peak last year, as the growth in the world economy has cooled off and production at new mines...
...It trimmed its dividend for 2023 to $4.35 per share, down 12 per cent from the previous year. The total payout of $7.1bn represents 60 per cent of Rio Tinto’s underlying profit of $11.8bn....
...Pascall said the mine covers less than 4 per cent of the rainforest cleared in the country over the previous 25 years yet generated enough copper last year for 6mn electric vehicles....
...The European Central Bank decided to raise interest rates by a quarter point yesterday, to an all-time high of 4 per cent....
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...Rio Tinto’s difficult years-long expansion of the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia is now delivering tonnes into a constrained copper market, where stronger prices helped the major miner prop up earnings...
...World’s top copper producer bemoans spectre of speculators Trade Chile’s current account deficit in September 2023 was $4.5bn, though it was in surplus in the previous quarter by $1.7bn....
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...On the copper, Ward has spray-painted a composition of spirals, using prayer beads and the bricks as stencils....
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