RANKED: World’s biggest copper projects — 2023

MINING.com Editor | January 30, 2023 | 9:17 am
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Wood Mackenzie estimates that 9.7 million tonnes of new copper supply will be needed over the next 10 years from projects that have yet to be put into development. The world will be called on to close an “unattainable gap” between green energy demand and copper supply.

For a snapshot of the copper supply chain of tomorrow, Mining Intelligence compiled a list of the top 10 largest undeveloped copper projects and ranked them according to contained copper in the measured and indicated and inferred categories.