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Escondida strike; China tightens grip on antimony

The strike at the world’s largest copper mine, Chinese export curbs on another critical mineral and the iron ore price tumbling to a yearly low rocked metals and minerals markets this week. While we suspect that global copper prices won’t be too affected by the strike, we think that iron ore prices have further to fall over the coming years.

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