Differentiate fixed costs and variable costs. 1  Total cost is the sum of fixed and variable costs.  Variable costs change according to the quantity of a good or service being produced. The amount of materials and labor that is needed for to make a good increases in direct proportion to the number of goods produced.
Xtrata is a top five producer of copper, thermal coal, coking coal, ferrochrome, zinc and nickel and has operations in 19 countries. The company's copper production in 2010 was over 900 thousand metric tons and it has copper facilities located in Australia, Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Canada.
I think K is the most common. Looks like stainless steel and machines about the same. These two are the only copper/nickel alloys that are called Monel. There are a lot of other copper/nickel alloys. Monel has more nickel than copper. When the copper content gets higher the color changes toward copper. Probably at least 400 alloys of copper with nickel, aluminum, zinc, tin, magnesium with various names but there are only two that are called Monel as far as I know. 04-28-2008, 03:46 PM #20.