Portfolio of Copper Stocks

Stock prices of copper mining companies tend to follow the underlying prices of copper. Therefore, the prices of the mining stocks are quite volatile. Before you buy a copper stock, be sure you research the company and know where prices are in the copper price cycle.

The following table lists major copper mining stocks with major copper mining operations.

Copper Mining Stocks
Company	Symbol	10-Year Moving Average Chart*	Price and PDI Chart	Multiyear Returns	Principal Mine Locations
Anglo American	AAL.L	Chart	Chart	Table	South America and southern Africa
Antofagasta	ANTO.L	Chart	Chart	Table	Chile
BHP Billiton	BHP	Chart	Chart	Table	Chile
Equinox Minerals	EQN.TO	Chart	Chart	Table	Zambia
First Quantum Minerals	FM.TO	Chart	Chart	Table	Zambia
Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	Chart	Chart	Table	United States and Indonesia
Global Copper Corp	GLQ.TO	Chart	Chart	Table	Canada
Ivanhoe Mines	IVN	Chart	Chart	Table	Mongolia and Australia
Rio Tinto	RTP	Chart	Chart	Table	United States
Tech Cominco	TCK	Chart	Chart	Table	Canada, Peru, Chile and Newfoundland
Sterlite Industries India	STL	Chart	Chart	Table	India
Vale	VALE	Chart	Chart	Table	Global
Vendanta Resources	VED.L	Chart	Chart	Table	India, Australia and Zambia
Xstrata	XTA.L	Chart	Chart	Table	Seven countries

NOTE: * A stock with fewer than eleven years of price data from Yahoo! Finance will not display a 10-year moving average.

Non-Dividend-Paying Portfolios includes links to each portfolio of a few or no dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend-Paying Portfolios includes links to each portfolio of dividend-paying stocks.

Great Dividend Stocks includes links to more dividend-paying stocks.

To follow the day-to-day progress of the Copper Mining portfolio, check out the chart below. It is updated each day, so the portfolio values are always current. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $2,500.00 was invested (total of $10,000) in each of the 4 stocks at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2001. Note: The chart values are based prices for BHP, FCX, RTP and STL. The other stocks are excluded because of lack of price data.

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Today's date: Mar-20-10.