I can remember coming back from Mobutu's forbidden city, which he built it in the '80s with the money from copper and uranium.
Monster Cable, the company that charges insane amounts of money for copper wires, actually came up with a fine idea for its iFreePlay headphones, silly name notwithstanding.
A place to double your money in copper if you're lucky or to get wiped out if you're not.
"Applied has been throwing tons of money," into copper technology research, says Gerald Fleming, a semiconductor equipment analyst at Tucker Anthony in Boston.
In 2006, he told the Observer: "I never became involved with underhand dealings or giving money to coppers".
The Chileans pride themselves as being uncorrupted, and there is a great sense of solidarity -– which is all paid for by Chinese copper money.
From the reign of Darius I [522 486 bce], the Persian monarchs had allowed their satraps and vassal states to coin silver and copper money.
It didn't suit them, as it would have if an MP had been – allegedly – drunk at the wheel and they'd been tipped off for money by a copper.
His efforts, however, had been delayed by legal challenges and cries for preservation of the so-called Jackling House, which was built in the 1920s for another successful industrialist: Daniel Jackling, whose money was in copper, not silicon.
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.
