{"id":180773,"date":"2025-09-25T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180773\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:19:07","slug":"copper-prices-rattled-by-mining-accidents-just-as-demand-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180773\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper Prices Rattled by Mining Accidents Just as Demand Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/FCX:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Freeport-McMoRan Inc.<\/a>\u2019s declaration of force majeure at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia \u2014 where two employees are dead and five missing after a massive mud flow \u2014 couldn\u2019t have come at a worse time for the global copper market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Demand for the metal, essential for electronics, has soared along with the clean-energy transition and the artificial intelligence boom. And yet, a combination of accidents and disruptions has struck mines from South America to Central Africa, straining supplies. Grasberg, on the mountainous island of New Guinea, is the world\u2019s second-largest copper source, accounting for 3% of global output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freeport-McMoRan Inc.\u2019s declaration of force majeure at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia \u2014 where two employees are dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1926,181,28,13293,107022,18029,104985,11518,107023,3996,112,18598],"class_list":["post-180773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-africa","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-chile","tag-copper-mine","tag-freeport-mcmoran-inc","tag-generic-1st-gc-future","tag-generic-1st-hg-future","tag-guinea","tag-indonesia","tag-markets","tag-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}