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Molten copper pours from a large industrial furnace into rectangular molds at a copper smelting facility, with glowing metal and industrial equipment visible.

Polished copper samovar with ornate handles and a spout, topped with a teapot, displayed on a tray with a matching bowl in front of a window.

A sample of chrysocolla after azurite, which is an example of a pseudomorph composed of orthorhombic copper hydroxyl silicate, from Ray Mine, Pinal county, Arizona, U.S.

Copper in its native form, from Keweenaw, Houghton county, Michigan; in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Texas.

Terraced open pit at the Phelps Dodge Morenci copper mine in southern Arizona, with mining equipment and trucks visible on the mine floor and benches.

Schematic diagram of a flotation separation cell.

Take a look at researchers studying Mississippians copper work from the Cahokian mounds in southwestern Illinois

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