Australian copper industry to grow 30% to 2016
The Australian copper industry is expected to grow by nearly 30% in the next five years to 2016 according to the new report ‘Copper Industry in Australia’ .Australia is one of the world's major copper mining countries, although its output lags behind that of Chile, Peru, the United States and China.Chile alone represents about one-third of global copper mine output.Australia's copper ore production is expected to be just over 1.0 million tons in 2012-13. Rapid growth in industry revenue over the past five years occurred as