Re: My thoughts/opinions on why CUU is down
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Aug 20, 2014 04:27PM
CUU own 25% Schaft Creek: proven/probable min. reserves/940.8m tonnes = 0.27% copper, 0.19 g/t gold, 0.018% moly and 1.72 g/t silver containing: 5.6b lbs copper, 5.8m ounces gold, 363.5m lbs moly and 51.7m ounces silver; (Recoverable CuEq 0.46%)
Copper is getting expensive to mine. If copper $ goes down, lots of mines will be shut down.
Average cost per pound of copper is around $1.50 (this was back in 2012 I read). or more.
Then you have countries such as Indonesia where they don't allow Freeport to export concentrates until recently.
Some mines having delays but were suppose to be coming online. (Red Chris, Cobre Panama, Rosemont).
Aside from the demand, copper supply may be a problem in the future.