Smelter Payday Countdown, page-123

hoots,
You paint a gloomy picture for any hopeful trying to become a miner. Money and financial support are important and CuDeco is now trialling Chinese smelter requirements. There is no joy in this climate for established miners like Sandfire and Oz Minerals whose share prices are also under pressure. It is worse with iron ore . The little guys are being squeezed out by the increasing overproduction of the big miners. Fortunately for copper producers ,there are not the massive quantities of easily accessible copper, on a world wide basis, as iron ore .