Despite gold's price slump, strong copper and iron ore prices lifted MINING.COM's ranking of the world's 50 most valuable miners to a new record high of $1.35 trillion.
Company is not building or investing in a previously planned project to make refined copper from scrap in eastern Malaysia, chairman Zheng Gaoqing said.
The world’s biggest copper producer has some calming words for traders concerned that a covid-19 resurgence in Chile will disrupt supply of the metal.