copper

The company produced 151,900 metric tons of copper in the third quarter, a 7% increase from the previous quarter, driven by higher output at its Los Pelambres mine in Chile’s Coquimbo region, it said Thursday.

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

Chile, which is responsible for nearly a quarter of global copper output, saw production fall to its lowest level in 15 years in August due to storms and operational problems.

From Barron's ● 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

Tools and weapons made of this extraordinary alloy began to replace those previously made of wood, stone, bone, and copper.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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

In it he said: "Look at how many coppers there are in my house... That, ladies and gentlemen, is the country that we live in."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2023

“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 pot-shops would give you a fistful of coppers for a litter of pups, she'd heard, but she didn't like to think about that.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had then been recaulked and coppered; besides having her rigging set up again and tarred down, as well as the coverings and seizings replaced, and the chaffing gear paid over.

From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

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

The bell-tower, which is very high, is a great square tower to the left of the choir, surmounted by a steeple formerly covered with wooden shingles, but in recent times coppered.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

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 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

When both ends are silvered the process of coppering by electro deposit is commenced.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

A method of coppering soldered articles will be described later on.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

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