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Copper prices rise to 10-year high, near record

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Although Chile and Peru contributed 40% of global mine supply in 2020, Roskill observed, copper production there is yet to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels. Annual imports of material classed as E-scrap have also been decreasing since 2018. Volumes of copper scrap imports have been declining annually since 2017.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru. Pierre , 2018–2019 U.S. Everything that we do has the patient in mind.". He reported that he felt as though a part of him had come back thanks to the prosthesis. www.youtube.com.

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Maersk and IBM launch TradeLens blockchain shipping solution; 154+ million shipping events already captured on platform

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Customs authorities in the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia and Peru are participating, along with customs brokers Ransa and Güler & Dinamik. Pacific International Lines (PIL) have joined Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd as global container carriers participating in the solution.

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Ipsos study finds US among most skeptical of Autonomous Vehicles

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Data is weighted to match the profile of the population. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample’s composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe.