China to become world’s main consumer of base metals by 2017— report
Wood Mackenzie also predicts the global base metals market will grow from 96Mt in 2013 to 122 Mt by the end of 2018.
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See Geosense at the MENA Mining Show 2013, October 28-29, and see the latest in field spectrometers and spectroradiometers for mining.
Field spectroscopy is an important tool for mining exploration.