Avram Grant's men put in a solid performance

Copper MCU3LX stood at $3,330 per tonne on the LondonMetal Exchange on Tuesday, having lost more than half of itsvalue last year due to declining global demand and risinginventories. Atlas signed a deal last August to supply 60,000 tonnes ofcopper concentrate to MRI by June 2009. The first 30,000 tonnes of the 28.2 percent grade fromAtlas' Toledo mine in the central Philippines contain theequivalent of about 8,250 tonnes of the metal and would be soldat an average of $7,612.50 a tonne, the company said. It did not say if it had hedged the rest of the metalamount to be supplied. Atlas subsidiary Carmen Copper Corp, which operates theToledo mine in the province of Cebu south of the capital,expects to ship another 5,600 tonnes of copper concentratebefore the end of January. Operations at the Toledo mine, estimated to have depositsof 874 million tonnes of copper ore, with an average grade of0.41 percent, resumed in July after a 14-year break due to alack of funding to repair damage caused by typhoons. Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp askedshareholders late in October to inject $48 million into thecopper mine while it seeks additional debt financing.

Thefigure should cover mine operating costs until February orMarch, Buckingham said. (Reporting by Manolo Serapio Jr.; Editing by ClarenceFernandez)((; 63 2 8418936; Reuters Messaging:)) China. The "win one, lose the next" pattern continued for Liverpool on Saturday, as they traveled to Fratton Park and were handed a 2-0 loss by Portsmouth.Liverpool supporters will have a hard time conjuring up positives to draw out from this game All key players featured today There were no close misses or unlucky calls. Liverpool were simply outplayed by the team at the bottom of the table.Avram Grant's men put in a solid performance. The beginning portions of the game showed Portsmouth's determined defense. Mascherano was given a red card after a rash challenge Tal Ben Haim.

To add insult to injury (or rather injury to insult) it did appear as if Mascherano not only left the pitch with a red card, but an injury as well.Rafa Benitez's response to Pool's poor half time was equally as poor. The coach waited seven minutes and then replaced Dossena for Benayoun. Dossena's inclusion in the starting line-up was unusual, and he certainly did not prove himself worthy of the start.Despite Benayoun's entrance, the sloppy play by Liverpool continued in the second half, and they were punished with another deserved goal by Portsmouth via Frederic Piquionne.Liverpool's few shots on goal were rare and unconvincing. Johnson and Kuyt looked as if they didn't know what to do with the ball. The Lucas and Mascherano midfield created no attack (and it didn't seem to stop Pompey's attacks, either), and this was only intensified after the red card.Benayoun was easily kept at bay by Portsmouth's defenders.