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copper mine

NOUN
  1. a mine where copper is dug from the ground

How To Use copper mine In A Sentence

  • In the periphery of the oxidation, copper mineralization occurs as chalcopyrite, bornite, tennantite and mispickel.
  • Nine teams of rescuers were trying to contact three miners missing underground after an earthquake killed five others in Europe's largest copper mine. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mine is well known for the rare secondary copper minerals that occur in the lode, including paramelaconite, cuprite, malachite, and dioptase.
  • There have been holes cut in it by Romans seeking gold, copper miners for hundreds of years afterwards and whacking great quarries riven out by the slate industry in recent times.
  • The lode proved to be spotty, showing just marginal copper mineralization.
  • The abandoned copper mine in the mountains has been controlled by secessionist rebels since the late 1980s.
  • There is a rough zonal arrangement of the ore minerals around the intrusive, gold and copper minerals (chiefly enargite and chalcopyrite) being more prominent near the intrusive, and argentiferous galena and zinc blende richer at greater distances. The Economic Aspect of Geology
  • Of particular interest is the large suite of secondary lead and copper minerals that can be found - most notably pyromorphite and wulfenite.
  • The lawsuit comes on the eighteenth day of a strike at the world 's largest copper mine. Times, Sunday Times
  • It contains copper and iron oxide and was brought from the copper mines by women who were then often hired to paint the wooden buildings. Times, Sunday Times
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