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Brazil's Vale to make billions off copper-devouring microbes

Marc Howe | September 06, 2012 | 1:43 am Base Metals Europe Latin America Copper 

Vale (NYSE:VALE) has teamed up with the University of São Paulo to identify bacteria and fungi capable of eating copper in a move which could generate an additional $1.4 billion in gross revenue for the Brazilian mining giant. According to...

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