copper
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Antofagasta also gave copper production guidance for 2027, expecting a range of 630,000 to 690,000 tons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Workers at the world's largest copper mine in Chile will go on strike on Wednesday after pay talks with Australian mining giant BHP fell apart, the union said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Pilbara iron ore shipments were as expected, copper output was 2% ahead while aluminum output was 6% below consensus views, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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 ● Oct. 11, 2026
One more girl with copper red hair and freckles entered the room.
From "Sleepover Sleuths: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #1" by Carolyn Keene
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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 ● Sep. 11, 2026
He emptied out Russian identity papers, bank notes in the Russian currency, the rouble, and small change in Belorussian coppers.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2022
“This isn’t the local coppers coming down, these are men in dark suits.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
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
“The coppers have been secretly searching rooms and interrogating automats. They took Feste.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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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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
Pieces of timber sheathed with copper, in coppered ships, placed in the throating or scores of the stern-post, to prevent the rudder from rising or unshipping.
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
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
Ten on the ace," droned the anxious dealer, "the jack is coppered.
From Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge
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 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
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
Well, have your own way; but I'll fool you again, while you're coppering me.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
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