Sentence examples for worth of copper from inspiring English sources
Afghanistan opened bids Tuesday on billions of dollars worth of copper and gold deposits in four areas of the country that, together, equal roughly half the Grand Canyon.
Copper was then a semiprecious metal, and in theory (though seldom in practice) 24 copper halfpence contained a shilling's worth of copper.
Under ruggedly beautiful mountains close to Peru's border with Ecuador lie billions of dollars worth of copper owned by British-based firm Monterrico Metals.
ULAN BATOR, MONGOLIA — Mongolia's billions of dollars' worth of copper, gold, uranium and coal reserves promise the greatest influx of wealth for the country since Genghis Khan and his successors conquered much of the known world in the 13th century.
In response to the deal, Xstrata announced that it would reinstate about 600 million dollars worth of copper mining and exploration projects that it had put on hold, pending the outcome of the negotiations.
Pebble contains an estimated $400 billion worth of copper, gold, and molybdenum.
Scandal is the word.Last year miners in Congo, which include Freeport-McMoRan and Glencore Xstrata, shipped $6.7 billion-worth of copper and cobalt from the country.
They purchase from the subterraneous coiners 36 shillings'-worth of copper (in nominal value) for 20 shillings, so that the profit derived from the cheating is very large.. Boulton offered to strike new coins at a cost "not exceeding half the expense which the common copper coin hath always cost at his Majesty's Mint".
Usually this is a slow process, but occasionally, for reasons that are still not understood, the liver suddenly shuts down, dumping a lifetime's worth of stored copper into the bloodstream.
They got squashed together – and this led to the "epiphany" of the inter-twining spiral design, which, in a version involving about £600 worth of pure copper, now graces the main foyer of the school.
However, once the roads were built in early 1950s, tanks encircled strategic urban areas, trucks headed straight to the mineral-rich mountains, and Chinese workers arrived later to exploit and mine billions of dollars worth of gold, copper and uranium.
