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.
Chile saw authorized foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2011 increase 4% compared to the prior year to a record US$13.8bn, of which US$9.67bn or 70.1% corresponds to mining, the economy ministry’s for…