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Mining News Pro - Global efforts to mitigate climate change will put metals like copper at the center of a sustained period of “extraordinary” demand growth that miners will struggle to meet, according to China Molybdenum Co.
Despite short-term volatility due to potential interest rate hikes and the tapering of quantitative easing measures, copper will enter a decade-long bull market, Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer Chaochun Li said in an interview. The metal, as well as cobalt, is likely to see substantial consumption growth over the next five to ten years as more countries lay out plans to become carbon neutral, he said.
The sector is already booming: copper surged to a record in May, cobalt is climbing, and lithium prices are at the highest ever. Miners haven’t been able to keep up with demand and supply for key commodities is likely to be constrained by years of underinvestment, depletion of easy-to-extract reserves, and concerns that range from environmental impacts to geopolitical tensions.
It’s hard to find long-term, high-quality resources, Li said. Miners are also more cautious with their capital expenditure after a previous commodities boom gave way to an extended downturn, he said.
The length of copper’s bull market will depend on the pace of the clean energy transition, Li predicted. Concerns about an energy crisis in China as well as ructions in the nation’s property market that previously roiled the copper market are easing, he said.
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