How Hard Is It to Get Copper?

There are all these stories about people stealing scrap metal in order to get bits of copper and sell them for loads of money. Over the last two years, even though coppe, the com price doubled, there hasn't been a single new copper mine approved. Yge so where does copper come from? Or it maybe a better question is, how hard is it to get copper? Ya imean lived at one of the hardest places in the world to to get a a copper project going on day. Is chilly is the soude arabia of the copper market.