Copper: Humanity’s first and most important future metal
Millions of feet of copper wiring will be required for strengthening the world’s power grids, and hundreds of thousands of tonnes more are needed to build wind and solar farms.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – The Indonesian unit of U.S. miner Freeport-McMoRan Inc is aiming to export 1.1 million tonnes of copper concentrate this year, a company official said in a hearing with parliament on Wednesday.
The company had exported 684,333 tonnes of copper concentrate by end-October, according to government data.
(Reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe; Writing by Fransiska Nangoy; editing by Richard Pullin).