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Escondida sits 3,100 m up in the driest desert on Earth and pumps desalinated seawater 180 km uphill to run its concentrators. It is the single clearest example of what modern copper costs: enormous scale, falling grade, and infrastructure that dwarfs the mine itself.
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Copper
The reddish metal that carries electricity better than anything except silver, and which humans have been smelting…
Gold
The metal that does not tarnish, does not corrode and never runs out once mined — which is why almost all of it ever…
Molybdenum
A silvery metal added to steel so it keeps its strength at high temperature and under pressure.
Silver
The best electrical conductor there is, and the metal that has been used as money for longer than almost anything…
"Produk sampingan" adalah logam yang dipulihkan karena kebetulan berada dalam batuan yang sama, bukan karena dicari secara khusus. Pasokannya oleh karena itu mengikuti ekonomi logam primer, bukan ekonominya sendiri.
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