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By staff Writer | December 31, 2010 at 07:00 PM

By changing the structural nature of its mining business after the financial crisis sent copper and molybdenum prices plunging, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold is now poised to take the high ground. CFO Kathleen Quirk says Freeport is hiring and expanding its footprint in all the world's major mineral districts and expects the infrastructure development that is driving demand in China to continue for quite some time.

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