Many residents in the western part of the island remain without telephone service since Sandy, because saltwater destroyed copper cables buried underground.

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The water was recovered from deeply buried sulphide ores containing zinc and copper.

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But the real attraction is Friedland himself and his tales of copper and gold deposits buried under the Gobi Desert.

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In my opinion, they want Mes Aynak to set a precedent -- to be a model for resource extraction of the one trillion dollars plus of valuable minerals like oil, copper, lithium and iron buried underneath Afghanistan.

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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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She buried herself under heaps of orange, yellow, and copper-colored leaves.

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Some old company veteran will remember where that switch was buried, or will yank out the offending chip and wedge a copper penny in its place.

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The grave, which dated back to the Roman Conquest, contained a body buried in a crouched position, two brooches, an armlet, copper tweezers, coins and glass beads.

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The man is thought to have been buried fully clothed as shown by the preserved hobnails from his boots and a copper alloy earring found near his skull.

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