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Dear Pat: Having read your copper report, what are your thoughts on Quadra FNX Mining? Look forward to your comments. Thanks.

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Quadra FNX Mining, $14.77, symbol QUX on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 188.9 million; Market cap: $2.8 billion, www.quadrafnx.com), merged with FNX Mining in May 2010. The combined company now operates five mines in Canada, Chile and the U.S. Quadra FNX also owns the Sierra Gorda copper/molybdenum development project in Chile, and the Malmbjerg molybdenum-development project in Greenland. In the three months ended December 31, 2010, Quadra FNX’s revenue rose 88.6%, to $332.0 million from $176.0 million. Cash flow rose 46.1%, to $0.76 a share from $0.52 a share. Higher copper prices and the merger with FNX Mining pushed up results. The company held cash of $318.8 million, or $1.69 a share, at the end of 2010. It has no debt. Quadra FNX has since sold shares it owned in Gold Wheaton (to a takeover offer by Franco-Nevada Corp.) for cash of $263 million. In 2011, Quadra FNX expects to produce 240 million pounds of copper, seven million pounds of nickel and 115,000 ounces of gold,…