Copper is about to change the world, again. Ever-present – yet benignly invisible to us – current demand comes in the form of not only our staple diets of electrification, lighting and communication (see: 20th century), but as a pillar of humanity’s current movement into our ‘green revolution’. Copper – once referred to as ‘fool’s gold’ because of its marriage with chalcopyrite – is no fool at all, and will remain a future stalwart commodity as we move into exponential production of batteries, electric vehicles and a plethora of other decarbonisation and electrification advances that require the element. The idea ... (full story)