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.
Chilean copper exports were down 5.2% to US$1.89bn in the first half of December compared with US$1.99bn year-on-year, according to figures compiled by the central bank. Copper accounted for 90.2%…