Expensive power, low prices cause copper cuts

Due to high electricity costs and low metal prices, Phelps Dodge (PD-N), the world's second-largest copper producer (behind Chile's Codelco), will, for an indefinite period, lay off about 80 workers, or 15% of the workforce, at its copper operation in...

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