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Keeping copper from limiting the energy transition

Catalyst with Shayle Kann

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The Role of Nature in Copper Production

The world consumes roughly 28 to 29 million tons of copper a year. Of those, something like 5 million, 6 million come from recycling or scrap and there's a recovery of copper round that helps you. In general, what is produced is going to be about 22 million tons of Copper per year. That's like the rough figure of copper production in the world, all over the world. The main producer of copper is Chile and I'm Chilean and we're based in Chile as a company. And Chile produces roughly one third of the copper. Peru produces another 10% of the copper; US, Canada, Mexico, produce roughly another 10%. So our continent is by large the largest producer of

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