Base metals demand ensured for longer term – Citadel CEO

The inexorable growth of China and other developing economies will ensure that demand for industrial metals will continue to grow in the long term, according to the head of Australian-listed copper explorer, Citadel Resource Group. In the keynote address to the 21st annual LME Downunder dinner in Melbourne, Australia, Citadel’s CEO, Ms Inés Scotland, said she remained confident that the long-term future for copper and other industrial commodities would be buoyed by the unstoppable growth of the world’s developing economies. (more…)