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Freeport’s Cerro Verde copper mine in Peru hit by strike

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 10, 2017 | 9:58 am Base Metals Precious Metals Top Companies Asia China Europe Latin America Copper Gold Silver 

Workers at Freeport-McMoRan's (NYSE:FCX) Cerro Verde copper mine in Peru began Friday an indefinite strike over wages, adding pressures to a stressed global copper market already affected by stoppages at two of the world’s biggest copper operations. Around 1,300 unionized...

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