RE: Phelps Dodge went short on copperI think you said the key phrase "makes no sense".
Either (1) we are losing something in translation; or
(2)this is just talk to keep the good ol boys back home in the "vote for me" column; or
(3) Mongolia is run by the same characters as the Elbonians in the Dilbert the comic strip.
The latter I doubt. If so they would not be getting $$ from IMF, etc.
BJ2