| From Minyanville.com: Copper is at a record high of $9,357.75 a metric ton today, up 1.5% for the session--and up 27% YTD. PortWorldNews, a shipping trade publication, reports that "An accident over the weekend at Chilean copper mine Dona Ines de Collahuasi's Patache port has halted operations" after three contract workers were killed "when part of a ship-loader collapsed."
Dona Ines de Collahuasi, a joint venture of Anglo American Plc and Xstrata Plc--and the world’s third-largest copper mine--has declared force majeure, and will not ship copper "until further notice.".............................................Full Article: Source
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