When you look at a clean modern bar of copper stamped with purity marks and KPS values, it can feel

Life in a copper mining town was built around a single fact. The mine came first. Everything else, from the

At the start of the nineteenth century, copper miners knew exactly where the richest ore often waited. It lay deep

For many people, copper mining brings to mind inland pits and mountain ranges. In reality, some of the most important

When people imagine old copper districts, they often picture a single mine on a hillside with men going underground and

Long before modern flotation plants and long chemical names, copper miners still faced a simple problem. Most rock that came