The following is an excerpt from a recent article...

Individual copper mines have always sought to boost their revenue from any by-product gold (and silver), not least in recent years through precious-metal streaming deals. Now, at these price differentials, precious-metals companies will surely be eyeing-up acquiring copper-gold assets.

Compared with primary gold mines, copper-gold operations tend to be much larger, and have longer lives. The increasing price differential of the past two years is likely to lead to precious-metals producers buying base-metal assets to diversify, and lengthen their own production streams.

Read the whole article here

https://www.mining.com/despite-price-rise-copper-at-historic-low-against-gold/

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