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Economic review of copper

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Until recent years the consumption of copper in Australia had not been greatly different from the domestic mine output. Production attained a high peak during the war, but there has since been a serious drop. Although this drop is temporary, it has unfortunately coincided with a period of severe dollar shortage and of rapidly expanding demand for the metal. As a consequence it has been apparent for some time that two important problems face the metal industry in this country, now and for an indefinite number of years in the future: to what extent Australian production of copper can be expected to meet local consumption, and in what manner imports of copper can be made available from soft currency areas rather than from hard currency sources. It is with the idea of clarifying the position that this note has been prepared. To place the Australian picture in proper perspective it must be viewed against the background of the world's copper position and accordingly this note has been divided into two parts: the World position, and the Australian position.

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Title Economic review of copper
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e10f754e-7a73-472d-9f2a-ce579621a22a
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Economic review of copper". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/economic-review-of-copper