Chile could do the same with copper, instead of using Chicago as a price reference.
And it is with copper that the largest change in recent decades in metals extraction has happened.
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The shoe monument, made of fiberglass and coated with copper, consists of the shoe and a concrete base.
Unlike ceramics, plastics don't have to be fired at high temperatures and can be imbedded with copper circuits.
She works with copper, using the same relief sculpture techniques as her ancestors.
The same with copper, silver, any commodity the hedge funds could load up on in hopes of playing the spike.
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And since consumers do not think about power consumption when choosing a phone or laptop, manufacturers tended to stick with copper wire.
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To make the exterior look classic and more imposing, Mr. Breaux picked slate for the roof, with copper flashing instead of galvanized metal.
Rather than being magnesium based it seems to be zirconium with copper, nickel and niobium (that latter in only one formulation I think).
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Take an old telephone company: The CEO knows that his future lies with fiber optics and the Internet, not with copper wires and circuit switches.
The electric current density possible with such windings is approximately 30 to 100 times greater than the values achievable with copper coils at room temperature.
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G6 mainframe computer depends on the use of silicon chips with copper connections that draw on solid-state physics research done in the firm's laboratory in the 1980s.
And a few mines, some say, have given priority to producing associated metals such as molybdenum, which is mined in tandem with copper and whose price has increased even faster than the bigger metal's.
Miners can use underwater robots to dig up deposits left from "black smokers, " which are little towers of metallic sulfides that form after magma forces fluids with copper, gold and other metals through the seafloor.
However, the company expects this trend to reverse in the future, with copper output projected to rise to 4.3 billion next year, from an estimated 3.6 billion pounds in 2012, with further gains in future years.
The company is installing equipment at the new factory in Portland and bringing the machines online to roll out its solar panels, which contain a thin layer of solar cells made with copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS).
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They were made of thin copper pieces, hinged together with hammered copper rims and decorated with enamel and paint.
Bolt's high performance CPU cooling solution, with five copper heat pipes, unlocks even more gaming performance with processor overclocks of up to 4.6 GHz with Intel's i7 3770K CPU. Bolt also supports up to 3 hard drives: 2 SSDs and 1 mechanical for incredible storage flexibility.
Exactly what that copper content is is debatable: various sites give brass or bronze as the alloy and with different copper contents.
This, to a stranger, would appear to fit well with the copper-wire hair and the close eyes.
The empire builders who are only happy getting larger by acquisition should be retired with a copper parachute.
They also argue that, with the copper price falling, a renegotiation might leave the government in a worse position.
Freeport competes with Southern Copper, Codelco, Barrick Gold and Newmont Mining.
Recovery is on the way, and the recession anyway had more to do with low copper prices than Concertacion policies.
However, torque then becomes a problem, requiring huge generators with heavy copper windings that may scale out in the 3-4 MW range.
The state budget is tailored to achieve a surplus of 1% of GNP, with a copper price at its long term value.
But in the bowels of a particular metropolitan area--where conduits are already becoming choked with thick copper wire--the human-hair-sized glass has almost immediate prospects.
Unfortunately, with traditional copper lines, once you cross six or seven miles, they drop off to half a meg, if you can even get that.
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