11.  Phelps Dodge is one of the few copper companies to turn a profit.

12.  Profits at copper mining companies tumbled, with some companies forced to cut production to help arrest the price slide.

13.  Rio Algom Ltd. may rise after the copper mining company said it is seeking a partner for its planned move into copper smelting and refining.

14.  The copper company rationalized the disparity, she said, by asserting that Mexicans were used to such conditions and aspired to nothing more.

15.  The sale created the largest copper company in the world not owned by a government.

16.  Originally a mechanical engineer, Mazoka was managing director of Anglo-American Corporation, a major copper mining company.

17.  A U.S.-owned copper mining company threatened to counter-sue a tribal leader accusing it of arbitrary arrest, torture and other crimes, a report said Sunday.

18.  The largest copper company in Europe, KGHM Polska Miedz SA of Poland, has fired its president because of poor results, newspapers reported Tuesday.

19.  The jousting for control of Asarco underscores the pressure copper companies face to cut costs by consolidating.

20.  The signing of the truce triggered new interest in the mothballed Papua New Guinean copper mining company Bougainville Copper Ltd.