Copper price jumps to 6-week high after Chinese factory data
Red metal has now clawed back 62% of its 2015 losses after Chinese manufacturing expands for the first time in four months.
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Apple puts batteries at the centre of its EV masterplan
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Greek govt. vows not to touch Eldorado’s mine
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Within the Earth’s crust, there is 1 gram of silver for every 12.5 tonnes of earth (27,600 lbs). This makes silver very difficult to find. To understand silver supply, we must first discover how economic silver deposits form.