"It was a 75-year-old woman who was digging for copper in the ground so that she could sell it for scrap," said a spokesman for Georgia's interior ministry said yesterday.

“这是由于一名75岁的老妇在地里挖铜买废品发生的”格鲁吉亚内政部的一名发言人昨天解释说。

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The geophysicists went on to conduct a second test in an abandoned copper mine in Arizona, using 25 iron plates spaced at various intervals in tunnels up to 45 metres below ground.

地球物理学家又在亚利桑那州一个废弃的铜矿矿井进行了第二次试验，他们将25块铁板有间隔的放置在地下45米出的坑道中。

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Money is not evil any more so than copper, lead, tin, or iron that you may find in the ground.

金钱并没有害处，就像铜、铅、锡或铁这些一样，你能在地上找到这些。

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For the ordinary copper on the ground, how does he know which ones to investigate and which ones to ignore?

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That is, people actually digging up copper wire from the ground, stealing it, and selling it for scrap.

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Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire.

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