China’s Copper Boom Tested as Miners Squeeze Smelters
A copper electrolysis plant in Longyan, China.
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The unrelenting expansion of Chinese copper processing capacity over the past few years has now become a global headache, as smelters scramble to secure the ore they need to produce the vital industrial metal.