stockpile
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Graham Kerr said he anticipates the government-led stockpile—announced earlier this month and called Project Vault—will prioritize metals that have opaque markets and need price support to underpin new projects.
The team noted that the U.S., for example, has stockpiled copper, pulling much of it from the global market and causing prices to rise.
From MarketWatch
“For context, China’s iron ore port stockpiles have only lifted above 160 million tons briefly on three occasions in 2018 and one occasion in 2022,” he says.
It’s true that should the Iranian regime topple “the country’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and operating nuclear reactors could become dangerously unsecured.”
As the sector weathers a period of unprecedented uncertainty, retailers and manufacturers are sitting on their biggest polished‑stone stockpiles in years.
From Barron's
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