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Copper is mined, extracted from underground. Copper-bearing rock (ore) is blasted underground, scooped up by front-end loaders, taken to underground crushers, then hoisted to the surface in skips up one of the shafts. At the surface, the ore is crushed further, mixed with water and other special chemicals to remove the waste rock and float the copper ore so it can be skimmed off, then heated and treated in other ways to purify the copper and separate it from any other metals.
Massive trucks and cranes are used to move the covering dirt and the ore off to be processed.
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What is swansea famous for?
The copper industry
How can you stop copper mining?
Find a substitute for copper and pay everyone in the copper industry for income lost by eliminating copper mining.
What has the author Rodney D Rosenkranz written?
Rodney D. Rosenkranz has written: 'Copper availability--market economy countries' -- subject(s): Copper industry and trade 'Copper availability - domestic' -- subject(s): Copper, Copper industry and trade, Statistics
How many people work in the U.S copper industry?
The U.S. copper industry employed an average of 10,000 people in 2001, down slightly from 2000.
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If it is a copper nugget, it must be made of copper.
What type of mining is a significant industry in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile?
Copper mining in northern Chile is the major industry of the Atacama Desert.
What coin is made out of copper?
The penny is made out of copper.
What is a copper kettle made of?
a copper kettle is made of copper, a browny red metal. . .
What is the importance of copper economically?
Copper is economically important to the electrical industry, since copper wire is the most broadly useful form of electrical conductor; copper is also used for many other things, cookware, the manufacture of brass or bronze (both of which are alloys that include copper), and let us not forget, pennies (and other denominations of coins, which are often made with copper alloys).
What is a copper made out of?
Copper is mined as copper it is not an alloy
What is copper madde of?
Copper is a metal and is made of copper
How many people are employed by the global copper industry?
A lot.
