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Battle of metals bulls ends in ... agreement

Despite a Friedland/Bristow debate falling over, copper and gold debate goes on

Alex Hamer

Two recent commentaries were set to put gold and copper head to head as an investment for this year. Unfortunately the Mining Indaba crowd missed out on a battle between Robert Friedland and Mark Bristow,...

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