copper
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The Chilean copper miner said Thursday that its pretax profit rose 72% on the same period last year to $2 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
This “disruption allowance” effectively removes 800,000 metric tons of copper from his global mine supply forecast.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Price, in conjunction with fellow analysts Duncan Hay and Ashley Kielty, set out his case for copper in a report published Tuesday with the punchy title, “Copper…. Better than gold.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
LME three-month copper is up 0.2% at $14,190 a metric ton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
He gives them glass beads and copper in return for the food they have brought.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Mette, who has been with the department for 18 years, told "young coppers" they have a "long way to go."
From Fox News ● Oct. 21, 2021
“You want to say ‘I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
“You want to say `I know all these coppers, I know all these things?’
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2020
Its conclusion, following a public consultation, was that the £50 note and coppers should all remain, and that the mix of notes and coins in circulation should be unchanged "for years to come".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2019
She brought out a book for me to sign, and I gave her a couple of coppers.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’ve jest give Mrs. Campbell a bird’s-eye view of your career, so you’re coppered on that bet from the start.”
From Wunpost by Dane Coolidge
Two lighters, coppered below, bearded with dark green weed, blundered alongside with bags of coal, and soon the gangs, a grimy and ragged collection, were getting the bags aboard, and the winch grumbling away.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
She was coppered to the bends, was painted black to her rails, with the exception of a broad red ribbon round her, and was pierced for eighteen guns.
From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson
During action this becomes coppered, while in contact with the sulphate of copper, but it is not attacked by the acid.
From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone
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
The invention of coppering the ships' bottoms, and thus adding to their speed, although generally practiced in England, had been applied in France only to the smaller part of the navy.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
A method of coppering soldered articles will be described later on.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
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
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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