copper
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For the full year, the London-listed miner said it continues to expect copper production in the range of 625,000 to 655,000 tons compared with the 653,700 tons reported for 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Oct. 15, 2026
The Escondida mine in northern Chile yearly digs up around five percent of the world's copper, which is essential for the energy transition, artificial intelligence and defense.
From Barron's โ Oct. 14, 2026
Jefferies increases its long-term copper price to US$6/lb, from US$5/lb.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Oct. 12, 2026
"At the time you think it might be copper or iron washing down through the landscape but it stank and it was sort of oily all over her coat," Donna added.
From BBC โ Oct. 11, 2026
He wears a necklace of a large piece of copper, and many strings of beads.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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Her odyssey also takes her to Falster, an island at the bottom of the country, where she finds “a cluster of sooty coppers on a few glossy yellow flowers.”
From The Wall Street Journal โ Sep. 11, 2026
Mette, who has been with the department for 18 years, told "young coppers" they have a "long way to go."
From Fox News โ Oct. 21, 2021
Could the man seemingly most committed to rooting out bent coppers be the worst of them all?
From BBC โ May 1, 2021
“You want to say ‘I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’
From Seattle Times โ Oct. 13, 2020
I crawled rapidly around the floor, picking up the coins, trying to avoid the coppers and to get greenbacks and the gold.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.
From Time Magazine Archive
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These boats were coppered and fitted with a cabin at the after part.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
In former ships of war, a fine white painted line or bend, representing the deep line of flotation, on the coppered edge.—Load water-line.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Ten on the ace," droned the anxious dealer, "the jack is coppered.
From Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge
She was coppered; not a sheet of metal was off, not a rent anywhere visible through the length and breadth of the dingy green surface of it.
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
Clampett & Co. expect to get richer still on royalties, and are coppering their bet by making a round-the-world tour, beating bandits and fattening the market for their book.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The French ships, larger, deeper, and with better lines than their opponents, were naturally better sailers, and it may be inferred that even coppering had not entirely overcome this original disadvantage of the British.
From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
However, at a temperature of 50° C. the above receipt gives an excellent coppering liquid, which will coat zinc with a fine reguline deposit.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
This year also the experiment for coppering ships’ bottoms as a preservation against worms was introduced into the Royal Navy, and tried on the Alarm frigate, of 32 guns.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston
Naturally I'd been prejudiced against him not only by his mother's praise but by his father's steady coppering of the same.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
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