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Article: Spain: Atlantic Copper ups smelter output 10-15 pct.
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- October 5, 2009
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Spain's Atlantic Copper, part of Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., has raised production at its Huelva smelter by 10-15 percent since the beginning of August, it said on Friday.
A company official said the increase would raise the smelter's output to 300,000 tonnes per year of copper anodes and was due to improvements in efficiency and using more oxygen in the furnace. Anodes are basic copper blocks that are later refined.
Encouraged by higher prices, some metal producers have started to reverse earlier cutbacks and project delays, prompted around mid-2008 by plunging demand.
The official added that Atlantic Copper was selling all the ...