Americas-focused Mining Journal correspondent Paul Harris outlines the demand scenario for copper, considering the needs of a growing and increasingly industrialised global population, coupled with new demand from the electrification of the world as part of the fight to manage climate change.
To meet this anticipated increase in copper consumption, miners will need to up their game, however a mix of falling grades and labour disputes have raised question marks of the capacity of current producers to step up.
It may increasingly fall on the shoulders of a modest crop of developers and explorers to bring new production online and uncover the future world class deposits needed to satisfy the world's appetite for copper
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