The most pressing factor in the debate, however, is that anything connected with the funeral industry has a massively negative effect on property prices in the vicinity.

While mining companies' optimism about the strength of metals prices is one factor, there are other, arguably more pressing reasons for the current wave of consolidation.

Any smile fai think, smelting and refining capacity expansion, become to promote domestic fine copper production increase of the main motivation and pressing copper processing of important factor.