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Interesting Article from Japan Times

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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/05/business/copper-supply-shortage-warning-flashes/

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“There’s a huge crisis,” says Doug Kirwin, one of the earliest geologists to work at the deposit that became Oyu Tolgoi, or Turquoise Hill, named after the area’s rocks, stained by oxidized copper.   “There’s no way we can supply the amount of copper in the next 10 years to drive the energy transition and carbon zero. It’s not going to happen,” adds Kirwin, now an independent consulting

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BY JAMES FERNYHOUGH BLOOMBERG   May 5, 2023 (selected highlights from article posted in the Japan Times via Bloomberg, author, James Fernyhough)         “There was no doubt that it was exactly the sort of project that Rio Tinto goes after — tier one, large size, long life, low operating cost. So that was the basis of their interest,” says David Paterson,