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Copper prices got an unexpected boost, Tuesday, due to the release of data showing that China’s refined copper imports rose 21.5 percent over February levels. The cement grinding mill manufacturing process news sent copper prices up 0.3 percent, a slight rise, however, the increase was not enough to offset February’s 36 percent decline. On Monday, copper plunged the most in seven weeks on the LME, over concerns that China, the world’s largest copper consumer, would step up monetary tightening in efforts to cool the economy. In Shanghai, the most popular copper contract, for July delivery, settled about 0.7 percent lower at the close of trading.

Despite the red metal’s recent rut, analysts and mining giants remain bullish on the metal’s near and long term prospects. This was evident yesterday, when gold miner Barrick Gold Corp (NYSE: ABX) announced that it would purchase of copper producer Equinox Minerals (TSE:EQN, ASX:EQN). Barrick’s bid trumped China’s Minmetals Resources Ltd. $6.5 billion offer to Equinox. Barrick bid a surprising $7.7 billion, 17 percent more than Equinox’s average share price over the last 20 days of trading. Due to terms of the agreement, Equinox will drop its bid for Canadian copper and zinc producer Lundin Mining Corp (TSE:LUN).

Barrick’s purchase of Equinox will give the gold miner exposure to copper through various assets, including Equinox’s Lumwana mine in Zambia. The deal would be the second-largest acquisition by Barrick, after its $10.2 billion purchase of Placer Dome Inc. Barrick will fund the deal via credit and cash including a $5 billion credit facility, underwritten by Royal Bank of Canada and Morgan Stanley. Barrick also has an existing $1.5 billion credit facility and $4 billion of cash as of Dec. 31.Commenting on the purchase, founder and chairman of the board Peter Munk announced that Barrick was not trying to become a diversified miner and copper is the only non-gold metal where it desires significant expansion, a clear indication that that the copper market is poised for some impressive gains.

Last week, Japan released data that give an insight into how much the earthquake and tsunami hurt copper consumption. Japan’s output of rolled copper product slid 3.7 percent in March from the same month last year, its biggest fall in 17 months. Seasonally adjusted output totaled 68,620 tonnes in March, down 2 percent from February, preliminary data from the Japan Copper and Brass Association showed on Tuesday. “We’ll see a more Gold mining equipment for sale direct impact of the plunge in Japanese car production in the coming months as there is usually a time lag of one or two months between copper production and car output,” according to an  industry official said. Industrial output will likely remain low in the next few months but recover gradually towards the summer as industrial activities restart, and the country commences rebuilding efforts.

Company news

First Nickel Inc. (TSE:FNI) will restart ore production at its Lockerby nickel/copper mine in the third quarter of this year, with a ramp-up to full production of 10 million pounds of nickel and seven million pounds of copper per year by mid-2012. First Nickel idled production  in October 2008, when the worldwide recession hit and the price of nickel dipped beneath $4 a pound.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE:FCX), will pay a one-time 50-cent-a-share dividend and raised its 2011 sales forecast as the industrial metal traded close to a record. The world’s largest publicly traded copper producer announced that first-quarter net income climbed 67 percent to $1.5 billion, or $1.57 a share, from $897 million, or $1, a year earlier. Sales gained 31 percent to $5.71 billion from $4.36 billion. Freeport, forecast full-year copper sales of 3.9 billion pounds and gold sales of 1.6 million ounces, up from its prediction in January of 3.85 billion pounds and 1.4 million ounces respectively.

Capstone Mining Corp‘s (TSE:CS) said first-quarter production at its Cozamin and Minto mines fell 24 percent, due to lower mining rates and ore grades,  however, the company still stands behind its full year production forecast. The company said it produced 16.7 million pounds of Surface mining equipment manufacturer and machinery for sale cost copper in concentrates in the quarter, down from the 22 million pounds it produced a year ago. Capstone expects to produce 80-85 million pounds of copper in concentrates in 2011, as mining begins in the Avoca area in Mexico’s Cozamin and as is increases ore crushing rates at Minto, in the Yukon territory.

Copper prices got an unexpected boost, Tuesday, due to the release of data showing that China’s refined copper imports rose 21.5 percent over February levels. The cement grinding mill manufacturing process news sent copper prices up 0.3 percent, a slight rise, however, the increase was not enough to offset February’s 36 percent decline. On Monday, copper plunged the most in seven weeks on the LME, over concerns that China, the world’s largest copper consumer, would step up monetary tightening in efforts to cool the economy. In Shanghai, the most popular copper contract, for July delivery, settled about 0.7 percent lower at the close of trading.

Despite the red metal’s recent rut, analysts and mining giants remain bullish on the metal’s near and long term prospects. This was evident yesterday, when gold miner Barrick Gold Corp (NYSE: ABX) announced that it would purchase of copper producer Equinox Minerals (TSE:EQN, ASX:EQN). Barrick’s bid trumped China’s Minmetals Resources Ltd. $6.5 billion offer to Equinox. Barrick bid a surprising $7.7 billion, 17 percent more than Equinox’s average share price over the last 20 days of trading. Due to terms of the agreement, Equinox will drop its bid for Canadian copper and zinc producer Lundin Mining Corp (TSE:LUN).

Barrick’s purchase of Equinox will give the gold miner exposure to copper through various assets, including Equinox’s Lumwana mine in Zambia. The deal would be the second-largest acquisition by Barrick, after its $10.2 billion purchase of Placer Dome Inc. Barrick will fund the deal via credit and cash including a $5 billion credit facility, underwritten by Royal Bank of Canada and Morgan Stanley. Barrick also has an existing $1.5 billion credit facility and $4 billion of cash as of Dec. 31.Commenting on the purchase, founder and chairman of the board Peter Munk announced that Barrick was not trying to become a diversified miner and copper is the only non-gold metal where it desires significant expansion, a clear indication that that the copper market is poised for some impressive gains.

Last week, Japan released data that give an insight into how much the earthquake and tsunami hurt copper consumption. Japan’s output of rolled copper product slid 3.7 percent in March from the same month last year, its biggest fall in 17 months. Seasonally adjusted output totaled 68,620 tonnes in March, down 2 percent from February, preliminary data from the Japan Copper and Brass Association showed on Tuesday. “We’ll see a more Gold mining equipment for sale direct impact of the plunge in Japanese car production in the coming months as there is usually a time lag of one or two months between copper production and car output,” according to an  industry official said. Industrial output will likely remain low in the next few months but recover gradually towards the summer as industrial activities restart, and the country commences rebuilding efforts.

Company news

First Nickel Inc. (TSE:FNI) will restart ore production at its Lockerby nickel/copper mine in the third quarter of this year, with a ramp-up to full production of 10 million pounds of nickel and seven million pounds of copper per year by mid-2012. First Nickel idled production  in October 2008, when the worldwide recession hit and the price of nickel dipped beneath $4 a pound.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE:FCX), will pay a one-time 50-cent-a-share dividend and raised its 2011 sales forecast as the industrial metal traded close to a record. The world’s largest publicly traded copper producer announced that first-quarter net income climbed 67 percent to $1.5 billion, or $1.57 a share, from $897 million, or $1, a year earlier. Sales gained 31 percent to $5.71 billion from $4.36 billion. Freeport, forecast full-year copper sales of 3.9 billion pounds and gold sales of 1.6 million ounces, up from its prediction in January of 3.85 billion pounds and 1.4 million ounces respectively.

Capstone Mining Corp‘s (TSE:CS) said first-quarter production at its Cozamin and Minto mines fell 24 percent, due to lower mining rates and ore grades,  however, the company still stands behind its full year production forecast. The company said it produced 16.7 million pounds of Surface mining equipment manufacturer and machinery for sale cost copper in concentrates in the quarter, down from the 22 million pounds it produced a year ago. Capstone expects to produce 80-85 million pounds of copper in concentrates in 2011, as mining begins in the Avoca area in Mexico’s Cozamin and as is increases ore crushing rates at Minto, in the Yukon territory.

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Moammar Gadhafi rolled defiantly through the streets of Tripoli, pumping his fists as he stood up through the sun roof of a sport utility mobile gold processing plants vehicle Thursday — the same day that NATO airstrikes shook the city.

The alliance’s foreign ministers, while united in their aim to pressure the Libyan leader to go, argued at a meeting over whether to step up military operations that have so far failed to rout him.

Gadhafi gave no sign that he’s willing to relent, despite two months of civil war and mounting international pressure for him to move aside. Instead, his loyalists pounded rebel positions in the besieged western city of Misrata with dozens of rockets for several hours, killing at least 13 people.

The main target of the assault was Misrata’s port, the only lifeline for rebels who have been trying to defend positions in the city, Libya’s third-largest, against Gadhafi’s forces.

In the capital of Tripoli, several large explosions were heard, and a column of black smoke rose from the southeastern part of the city, andesit stone followed by the sound of anti-aircraft guns, a resident said.

Libyan state TV showed Gadhafi on a fist-pumping, rapid SUV ride through Tripoli with dozens of supporters chasing behind him. Libyan TV said the trip came on the same day that NATO airstrikes hit military and civilian areas in the capital.

The TV report said there were civilian casualties from the attacks. The report could not be confirmed.

The fighting in Libya began in mid-February when large anti-government protests escalated into a civil war. Rebels hold much of eastern Libya, while Gadhafi controls the west, with the front line shifting back and forth in the middle. Three weeks of international airstrikes haven’t routed Gadhafi’s forces.

Gadhafi’s troops unleashed gold ore three hours of heavy shelling on the port city of Misrata, which is partly held by rebels. The port is Misrata’s only lifeline, and government forces fired tank shells and dozens of Grad missiles, according to witnesses who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation.

The massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan Friday (March 11) has shortened the length Earth’s day by a fraction and shifted Concrete recycling process how the planet’s mass is distributed.

A new analysis of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan has found that the intense temblor has accelerated Earth’s spin, shortening the length of the 24-hour day by 1.8 microseconds, according to geophysicist Richard Gross at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Gross refined his estimates of the Japan quake’s impact - which previously suggested a 1.6-microsecond shortening of the day - based on new data on how much the fault that triggered the earthquake slipped to redistribute the planet’s mass. A microsecond is a millionth of a second.

"By changing the distribution of the Earth’s mass, the Japanese earthquake should have caused the Earth to rotate a bit faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds," Gross told SPACE.com in an e-mail. More refinements are possible as new information on the earthquake comes to light, he added.

The scenario is similar to that of a figure skater drawing her arms inward during a spin to turn faster on the ice. The closer the mass shift Dolomite quarry processing during an earthquake is to the equator, the more it will speed up the spinning Earth.

One Earth day is about 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds, long. Over the course of a year, its length varies by about one millisecond, or 1,000 microseconds, due to seasonal variations in the planet’s mass distribution such as the seasonal shift of the jet stream.

The initial data suggests Friday’s earthquake moved Japan’s main island about 8 feet, according to Kenneth Hudnut of the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake also shifted Earth’s figure axis by about 6 1/2 inches (17 centimeters), Gross added.

The Earth’s figure axis is not the same as its north-south axis in space, which it spins around once every day at a speed of about 1,000 mph (1,604 kph). The figure axis is the axis around which the Earth’s mass is balanced and the north-south axis by about 33 feet (10 meters).

"This shift in the position of the figure axis will cause the Earth to wobble a bit differently as it rotates, but will not cause a shift of the Earth’s axis in space - only external forces like the gravitational attraction of the sun, moon, and planets can do that," Gross said.

This isn’t the first time a massive earthquake has changed the length of Earth’s day. Major temblors have shortened day length in the past.

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile last year also sped up the planet’s rotation and shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. The 9.1 Sumatra earthquake in 2004 shortened the day by 6.8 microseconds.

And the impact from Stone crushing plant manufacturers Japan’s 8.9-magnitude temblor may not be completely over.The weaker aftershocks may contribute tiny changes to day length as well.

The March 11 quake was the largest ever recorded in Japan and is the world’s fifth largest earthquake to strike since 1900, according to the USGS. It struck offshore about 231 miles (373 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo and 80 miles (130 km) east of the city of Sendai, and created a massive tsunami that has devastated Japan’s northeastern coastal areas. At least 20 aftershocks registering a 6.0 magnitude or higher have followed the main temblor.