RE: RE: RE: Read this Gem Redmeral,
30,000 tons/year smelter producing 390million pounds of copper a year???
not sure if your math is right there, either way, i seriously doubt if FP would start building a smelter at this stage! more likely in an interview some junior mentioned a couple of numbers and the reporter went back to their desk, did a few calculations and came up with a completly spurious set of numbers!! Freeport would not be interested in anything that produced less than 100Kt a year for at least 15 years and preferably 20-25 is my guess.
TS