Sentence examples for copper from inspiring English sources

With gold stabilising after its recent declines - which were based on worries about countries such as Cyprus selling some of their reserves along with signs of slowdown in China - and base metals such as copper recovering, mining shares regained some lost ground.

Copper is poor material for making spoons because it has a very strong taste.

According to the UK source: "Not so long ago, this was all about attaching crocodile clips to copper wires.

El Salvador is an impoverished country, but its citizens live above riches: the country has an estimated 1.4m ounces of gold buried underground, as well as silver and copper.

Cavor coats his copper spaceship with it and equips the craft with rollerblinds.

Mining shares were among the main fallers on Friday, as anticipation of the Fed turning off its money tap sent copper to a five week low while gold suffered its worst week for two months.

More plentiful metals like copper, bronze and iron have electrode potentials that are lower than silver, react with quite a lot of food, and taste foul.

When the copper age arrived, it delivered better tools for cooking, but not for eating.

The British women's handball team may not have landed a medal, or much troubled the leviathan nations of their sport, but in their Copper Box match against the world No8 team Angola, the rookie crew showed more heart, ferocity and sheer giddy joy in taking part in the Olympics than many other teams.

The locals once tended tiny fields of fertile soil down here, but now the copper mines have lured all the able-bodied men and women away.

With the harrier comes what they call 'the pig circus' – us lot, the RSPB, the birders, the wildlife-crime copper.