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Copper poised for boost from Chile's troubled politics

A modest increase in the copper price over the past week could be more significant than it appears as the world's premier copper-producing country, Chile, slides towards a political crisis which has an echo of the disastrous 1970s.

Tim Treadgold
Copper poised for boost from Chile's troubled politics

The price rise from US$4.31 a pound to $4.39/lb took copper back to where it was for much of the past two months, albeit well down on the recent peak of $4.80/lb, or more than $10,500 a tonne. But last...

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