Investors have been piling into copper as global stimulus spurs demand and longer-term projections show supply won’t match the surge in consumption from the green-energy transition. (File pic shows copper smelting in Peru)
OVER the past decade, 43 million tonnes of copper have been mined but never processed.
Instead the metal lies trapped in giant piles of waste rock next to dozens of mines from Chile to Australia.
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