Copper in the US is up more than 30% so far this year, the most since 2009, as prices continue to benefit from the ...

of copper and exported about a third of that in primarily unrefined form, it imported 810,000 tons (735,000 metric tons), ...

The White House is taking a step toward granting the U.S. mining industry's biggest wishes by singling out one metal as a focus of its domestic minerals policy: copper.