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Phelps Dodge brings the curtain down on 173-year copper mining run

30 Jan 2007 09:50 GMT | EU Politics Today

... Phelps Dodge brings the curtain down on 173-year copper ... copper consumption, and a 1% increase in European and Japanese consumption. The worst of the ... per share. During 2006, PD received a pre-tax gain of $435.1 million, which included a ...


Phelps Dodge Posts 988% Rise in Quarterly Net Income

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:09:00 +0000 | Newsvine

Phelps Dodge [NYSE:PD], the world's third-largest copper producer, said that fourth-quarter profit surged to a record high because of higher average copper prices, a gain from its failed takeover of Inco and some well-timed copper hedging.


World Business Briefing: China: Bid for British Mine Company

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:09:58 EDT | New York Times

A consortium led by China?s biggest gold mining company, the Zijin Mining Group, has made a $185.4 million bid for the British copper mining company Monterrico Metals in what could become China?s first outright takeover of an overseas listed company. The acquisition would be the latest in a series of low-profile but substantial purchases of overseas mining assets by Chinese companies, part of the country?s quest to diversify supplies of strategically important resources. Monterrico, which is based in London, holds rights to the still-undeveloped Rio Blanco copper and molybdenum deposits in northern Peru, which the company says could yield up to 25 millions tons of copper ore a year. Zijin holds a 45 percent share in the consortium, with a Chinese copper mining company, Tongling, taking 35 percent and Xiamen C& D, a trading and real estate conglomerate, holding 20 percent, Zijin said.


Miner Sherwood Copper strikes power deal for Yukon mine

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:03:00 -0500 | CANOE Money

VANCOUVER (CP) - Sherwood Copper Corp. (TSXV:SWC) says its wholly owned subsidiary, Minto Explorations Ltd. has entered into a power purchase agreement with Yukon Energy Corp. for power to Sherwood's 100% owned Minto high-grade copper-gold deposit in the Yukon;


Experts divided on base metal prices

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:48:11 GMT | Business Standard

Analysts are divided over the near-term future of copper, in particular, and base metals, in general. A section of the analysts see copper prices declining this week on speculation that increasing


Phelps Dodge Posts 988% Rise in Quarterly Net Income

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:09:00 +0000 | Newsvine

Phelps Dodge [NYSE:PD], the world's third-largest copper producer, said that fourth-quarter profit surged to a record high because of higher average copper prices, a gain from its failed takeover of Inco and some well-timed copper hedging.


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