Grasberg mine in Indonesia (Credit: Freeport) Copper prices jumped Wednesday after Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) declared force majeure on contracted supplies from its Grasberg Block Cave mine in Indonesia.Three-month futures traded above $10,496 per ton ($4.7710 per lb.) on the CME, up 2.74% for the day. In London, copper for delivery in three months rose as much as 2% to $10,172 a ton on the London Metal Exchange, the highest level in more than 15 months. Click on chart for live prices.Freeport’s shares fe ...

Let's get to Jim and stop trading. The uh there's some very bad news out both in terms of human life and money. I don't mean to conflate them, but on Freeport FCX, they reported two fatalities from September 18th of Mud Rush incident.But they also are saying that third quarter sales were much lower for gold, 6% lower for copper, 4%. And just keep in mind that gold is one of the reasons why people have been buying this because gold is is red hot but also copper is used in the data center. So that stock's dow ...