“As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.” WayFourStreetsStupidBrotherOne WayGiantsMy BrotherCensorshipTrafficPolicemenCopper Book:Nods and Becks Source: Nods and Becks
“When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.” HardFatherBornSituationBlueCoreCollarsMontanaMinersBlue CollarCopperHard Core Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.” NeedsWritingStatesGovernmentBeautifulAnswersClearHugeBuiltRegulationFederal GovernmentHere And NowArizonaMiningCopperConciseUraniumRules And RegulationsUranium Mining Author:Jan Brewer
“The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels. ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries.” Has BeensSaidSciencePurposeValuesPowerfulPrinciplesInfluenceGeniusDiscoveryInstrumentsPracticalsInventionReasoningPurpose Of LifeChemicalsElectricityInquiryVesselFelicityCopperDecomposition Author:Charles Babbage
“The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.” WorldStillsResourcesGoldResponsibleRevenueMineralsPhilippinesMiningDepositsCopperNickelsExtractionUranium Mining Author:Benigno Aquino III