Images Videos Worker with molten copper. Copper samovar. Copper finial showing a stag and two steers, from Alaca Hüyük, c. 2400–2200 bce; in the Archaeological Museum, Ankara, Turkey. Bronze jia, Shang dynasty (18th–12th century bce); in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri. Copper sculpture of a crow, Hopewell culture, c. 300 bce–500 ce. Plumber soldering copper pipes. A sample of chrysocolla after azurite, which is an example of a pseudomorph composed of orthorhombic copper hydroxyl silicate, from Ray Mine, Pinal county, Arizona, U.S. Copper in its native form, from Keweenaw, Houghton county, Michigan; in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Texas. Gigantic trucks hauling 330 metric tons of ore at the Chuquicamata copper mine, Calama, Chile. Schematic diagram of a flotation separation cell. A side-blown copper-nickel matte converter. Copper processing in Legnica, Poland. Malachite after azurite, a monoclinic copper carbonate, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Copper mines of Rouyn-Noranda, Que. Copper mining in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. Chile’s Atacama Desert, part of the Andes, is rich in copper.