Copper market’s biggest whale fuels speculation of a major shift
The world’s single biggest buyer of copper, State Grid Corp. of China, has slowed its purchases of copper wire this year.
Online moisture analysis specialists Callidan Instruments recently had its MoistScanr MA-500HD subjected to arduous testing by a large international mining company to prove its ability to meet minimum performance standards accuracy and reliability on copper ore. In this case, the primary reason for measuring moisture online is for metallurgical accounting. The MA-500HD was installed on the feed conveyor to the SAG mill where information from the MoistScan was combined with beltscale data to derive a dry tonnes per hour feed to the mill. (more…)
