In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.

Copper oxide and selenium rectifiers were developed for power applications in the 1930s.

Copper and its alloys were integral in medieval architecture.

Copper daggers of Early Minoan III were recovered at Knossos.

Copper coins are very rare after 402, although minted silver and gold coins from hoards indicate they were still present in the province even if they were not being spent.

Under such circumstances, peasant disorders were endemic ; even the citizens of Moscow revolted against the Romanovs during the Salt Riot ( 1648 ), Copper Riot ( 1662 ), and the Moscow Uprising ( 1682 ).

Copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten were chosen and Simon bet that their prices would decrease, while Ehrlich bet they would increase.

In 1982, NCCM and RCM were merged into the giant Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd ( ZCCM ).

Microliths were also used from the Neolithic on arrows, although a decline in this use coincided with the appearance of bifacial or " leafed " arrowheads that became widespread in the Calcolithic period, or Copper Age ( that is, stone arrowheads were increasingly made by a different technique during this later period ).

Copper / tin bronzes, harder and more durable, were developed around 3200 BC, also in Asia Minor.

Copper mining was intensified, and copper crosses were probably used as a currency.

In 1982 NCCM and RCM were merged into the giant Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd ( ZCCM ).

Copper is Chile's single most important export ( more than half of Chile's export receipts were from this sole commodity ).

Selections of his work were translated into English in Twenty Poems of Vicente Aleixandre ( 1977 ) and A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vincent Aleixandre ( 1979 ; Copper Canyon Press, 2007 ) ( translated by Lewis Hyde ).

The Timna Copper Mines near Timna valley were opened, a port was constructed, the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline laid, and tourism began.

Later, he helped Scrooge make a juridical claim to the Anaconda Copper Mine, which were owned by Marcus Daly and some rich investors.

In the 1850s a number of wagon roads and trails were constructed through Vilas County including the Ontonogan Mail Trail and a Military Road from Fort Howard to Fort Wilkins in Copper Harbor, Michigan.

Among Copper Inuit, shamans were believed to obtain their power from this “ Wind Indweller ”, thus even their helping spirits were termed as silap inue.

Three lodges merged to form Ag-Im, these were: North Woods Circle Lodge # 156, Copper Country Council: Ottawa Lodge # 198, Iron Range Council: Minnewasca Lodge # 250, Red Buck Council.

During the height of the Klondike stampede prospectors set up tent camps along both the Copper and Klutina rivers, but the first cabins were built on a site one half mile west of the Copper.

The National Park Service's Wrangell-St. Elias Visitor Center and the Copper River Princess Wilderness Lodge were completed in 2002 at Copper Center.

Copper has been in use at least 10, 000 years, but more than 95 % of all copper ever mined and smelted has been extracted since 1900.

In Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region, published in 1961, Drier and Du Temple estimated that over 1. 5 billion pounds of copper had been mined from the region.

Copper was mined at the Great Orme in North Wales.

Copper and lead have been the main metals mined in the mountains and a brief gold rush occurred in the 18th century.

Copper was discovered at Kapunda in 1842 and was mined from there until 1879.

Copper has been mined for centuries at Chuquicamata as was shown by the discovery in 1899 of " Copper Man ", a mummy dated at about 550 A. D. which was found trapped in an ancient mine shaft by a fall of rock.

Copper has been mined in the land area between central Chile and southern Peru since Colonial times.

Copper has been mined for centuries at Chuquicamata as was shown by the discovery in 1898 of " Copper Man ", a mummy dated at about 550 A. D. which was found trapped in an ancient mine shaft by a fall of rock.

Copper is still mined at Berkeley Pit in Butte.

Copper was mined on the island after discovery in the 1842, in the first years of European ownership.

Copper ore was mined in the area, the first mines dating back to about 2000 BC .< p > In February 2010 a mountain fire endangered many homes and destroyed mountain wildlife.

Copper was also mined near Pickle Lake in the 1970s.

Copper was mined from Hidden Creek and Bonanza deposits and smelted on site.

Copper was mined at Kapunda, Truro and Kanmantoo and may be again and a zinc ( and lead, silver and gold ) mine is proposed near Strathalbyn.

Copper was formerly mined at Kapunda and Burra.

Copper smelting may have been invented in separate parts of Asia and Europe at that time or spread from an initial source by long-distance trade.

The Isle Royale Queen out of Copper Harbor, Michigan, arrives at the park in 3-3 1 / 2 hours and the Sea Hunter, out of Grand Portage, Minnesota, arrives in just 1 1 / 2 hours and operate round-trips and offer day trips through much of the season, less frequently in early summer and autumn.

Many masterpieces have also been found at the Royal Cemetery at Ur ( c. 2650 BC ), including the two figures of a Ram in a Thicket, the Copper Bull and a bull's head on one of the Lyres of Ur.

Miners at the Tamarack mine | Tamarack Mine in Copper Country, Michigan, U. S. in 1905.

Copper pot still s at Auchentoshan Distillery in Scotch Whisky | Scotland

* December 8 – The last blast is fired at the Falu Copper Mine in Falun, Sweden, after a millennium of continuous operation.

* Copper extraction and casting begins in the mines of Kansanshi in southernmost Africa, at the border of Zaire and Zambia.

Copper ingots shaped like oxhides have been recovered from shipwrecks such as at Ulu Burun, Iria and Cape Gelidonya which attest to the widespread metal trade.

Copper Island is a local name given to the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula ( projecting northeastward into Lake Superior at the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States of America ), separated from the rest of the Keweenaw Peninsula by Portage Lake and the Keweenaw Waterway.

Copper and gold mines are currently in production at Porgera, Ok Tedi, Misima, Lihir, Simberi and Hidden Valley.

In the Sierra Madre, a book by Jeff Biggers, looks at a Tarahumara village in the Copper Canyon.

Bednorz encountered a compound of Lithium, Barium and Copper oxide whose resistance dropped down to zero at a temperature around.

Chitina is located on the west bank of the Copper River at its confluence with the Chitina River on the Edgerton Highway, and junction with the McCarthy Road.

Copper Center is located at ( 61. 965305 ,-145. 318280 ).

Copper Center is located on the Richardson Highway 4 south on the west bank of Copper River at the confluence with the Klutina River.

Another camp sprang up at what was called Copper Ferry, where a ferry crossed the river.

Gakona is at the confluence of the Copper and Gakona Rivers, 15 miles northeast of Glennallen.

Construction for the Glenn Highway began at a camp on the Richardson Highway in the Copper River Valley named Glennallen after two U. S. Army explorers of the late 19th century: Capt.

Their permanent camp was on the Copper River at the village of Taral near Chitina where they fished for salmon.

It lies at the junction of the Slana and Copper rivers, southwest of Tok.