In 2010, 33 miners were trapped in a copper mine in the same region.
Like gold, oil and other commodities, copper mine supply growth has made little headway recently.
He also found the world's largest gold and copper mine: the Grasberg Mine in Indonesia.
There are also plans to open more of the Bronze Age copper mine on Llandudno's Great Orme.
Its initial brief was a far-reaching look at the copper mine, the protest and its violent dispersal.
BBC: Burma police 'used white phosphorous' on mine protesters
It also sponsors the Olympic program of Mongolia, where Rio Tinto operates the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine.
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Ivanhoe Mines inked an agreement with the Burmese government to develop a copper mine and split the profits.
The report also examined the villagers' grievances against the copper mine which led them to start the protest.
BBC: Burma police 'used white phosphorous' on mine protesters
In 2001, the top 50 probable copper mine projects totaled more than 7 million tons of new production.
Barclays believes that copper mine production will be better in 2012, but cautions that nothing is set in stone.
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Freeport McMoRan will get only 3 tonnes of copper from a 360-tonne truckload at its Irian Jaya copper mine in Indonesia.
Villaroel, 27, had been employed two years as a mechanic at the San Jose gold and copper mine in northern Chile.
An accident at a major US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua has left workers trapped, officials say.
Since BHP already runs the world's biggest copper mine at Escondida in Chile, the purchase gives it two of the top four.
The award of a 30-year contract to a Chinese consortium to exploit the Aynak copper mine in Logar province came under particular criticism.
The government in Burma has apologised to Buddhist monks for the injuries sustained during a police operation outside a copper mine nine days ago.
Indigenous groups from the Amazon region have marched for 700km (430 miles) to protest against plans for an open-cast copper mine in their region.
Rescue work is continuing at a major US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia after a tunnel collapsed on Tuesday, trapping more than 20 workers.
The workers at Rudna copper mine in Lower Silesia were trapped for about eight hours while rescuers dug through earth and rock to reach them.
On Jan. 15, Wheaton announced it will acquire interests in the Bajo de la Alumbrera gold-copper mine in Argentina and the Peak gold mine in Australia.
It quotes a review in Zambia which found that between 2005 and 2009, 500, 000 copper mine workers were paying a higher rate of tax than major multinational mining firms.
There is news that Freeport is expected to participate in the contest for Lundin, as both the companies jointly own a significant stake in a copper mine in southern Congo.
With weather delays, poor deposit grades, worker strikes and mill problems, Macquarie forecasted at the start of 2011 that roughly 700, 000 tons of copper mine production could be lost to disruptions.
English copper mine owners introduced soccer to Spain in the late 19th century, and the national team achieved its first glory when it won the silver medal at the 1920 Olympic Games.
Last month two people were killed and buildings set alight in Espinar, in the southern highlands, in a protest against Xstrata, an Anglo-Swiss company that owns a copper mine at Tintaya and is building another nearby.
Many people in the Espinar province have being protesting since last week and they are calling for an investigation into alleged environmental damage caused by the Tintaya copper mine and an increase of the company's contribution from three to 30% to the local authorities.
Family members have mounted a constant vigil in a tent city -- dubbed Camp Hope -- outside the copper and gold mine in the Chilean desert.
In Peru the Hallgarten analysts are fans of Northern Peru Copper, whose test bores show a sizable reserve of 7.3 billion pounds of copper and a mine life of 20 years.
Based in Pheonix, Phelps Dodge has copper mining operations in the U.S., Chile, Peru and Congo, while New Orleans-based Freeport operates the vast open-pit Grasberg gold, copper, and silver mine in Indonesia, and has reserves of about 37 billion pounds of copper and 40 million ounces of gold.
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