China covid-19 outbreak halts copper price rally


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MINING.COM Staff Writer | January 22, 2021 | 1:42 pm Markets Copper This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round gold objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the US. Credit: NIAID-RML. Metals markets were hammered on Friday after a fresh coronavirus outbreak in China, which is responsible for more than half the world’s metal consumption, business activity numbers in Europe are at their weakest level since the recovery began in July and worries that the stimulus program of the incoming US administration may fall short of...