copper
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This “disruption allowance” effectively removes 800,000 metric tons of copper from his global mine supply forecast.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Tuesday morning continuous trading, the Nymex copper contract was trading at $6.66/lb, up 0.66%
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The government has set an ambitious target of tripling annual copper output to three million metric tonnes by 2031.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The bank sees rising copper volumes coming from both Northparkes and Ernest Henry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It just stared at them with eyes glittering in the dim light like fresh copper coins.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
“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
“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
As Ranofer scrambled down from his stone to take the scroll back, he saw Pai at the pay box, counting out to Gebu the coppers from yesterday, and those for today as well.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lucy—brigantine; 520 tons; oak-built, coppered, and copper-fastened throughout; has only been to sea twice; excellent sea-boat, very fast and weatherly; fully found in every respect, and quite ready for sea.
From The Voyage of the Aurora by Harry Collingwood
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
It is the watchword of the most thickly coppered Copperheads.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
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
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
Not that you have not played your game well enough, but there never was a game played so well that some other fellow could not win by coppering it.
From 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough
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
On our arrival at Yokohama we were all in good health and the Vega in excellent condition, though, after the long voyage, in want of some minor repairs, of docking, and possibly of coppering.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
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