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Mettur Dam aluminium smelter
Output at the smelter was suspended in 2008. We have no base case restart. Wood Mackenzie’s asset reports are built from the bottom up, incorporati...
Mikkaichi (Electrothermic) zinc smelter
The zinc smelter at Mikkaichi in Japan used the electrothermic process to produce slab zinc. However producing zinc by this process proved uneconom...
Mineral policy reform in Latin America; the impacts on lithium & copper
It could be argued, that copper and lithium are to Latin America what oil and gas have been to the Middle East: a source of wealth and opportunity ...
Mining amid a changing political landscape in Latin America
Latin America holds over half the global reserves of copper and lithium, and with robust demand for these key energy transition enablers, mining of...
Molybdenum: wrecked by Covid-19 in 2020, bouncing back in 2021
Weakening demand forced molybdenum oxide prices down from their US$12/lb plateau in the second half of 2019. Despite recovering moderately in early...
Montecristo copper mine
The mine used to operate as Punta Grande until 2005 when the operating company was placed into receivership. Upon re-opening in 2008 the project wa...
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