Phelps Dodge News

David H. Elliott has been appointed vice president-cobalt marketing for Phelps Dodge Sales Co., a division of Phelps Dodge Corp., the company announced today.

In this newly created position, Elliott, 44, will finalize and implement cobalt marketing plans for Phelps Dodge. The company is expected to become a large producer of the metal in late 2008 when the Tenke Fungurume copper/cobalt project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo begins operation.

For the past 2 years, Elliott was director-business development for nickel at Falconbridge Ltd. in Canada. Before that, he served Falconbridge in Brussels as director-cobalt marketing & market development.

Elliott has worked in a number of marketing positions as well as in process & product engineering roles for Falconbridge & for Canadian steel producer Dofasco. He holds a bachelor of science degree in metallurgy from McMasters University in Hamilton, Ontario.