copper

Recreation drawing of ‘The Ivory Lady’. Credit: Miriam Lucianez Trivino. The highest status individual in ancient Copper Age society in Iberia, was a woman and not a man as previously thought, according to peptide analysis reported in Scientific Reports. The individual, now re-dubbed the "Ivory Lady," was buried in a tomb filled with the largest collection of…

John Reyes was helping his wife clean out her father’s 1900s-era home about nine months ago when they stumbled upon something truly unexpected. Reyes was rummaging through the crawl space in the basement of his late father-in-law’s home when he found some loose pennies held together by disintegrating paper rolls. He kept looking and eventually found dozens of bank bags containing copper pennies. Reyes, 41, a real estate agent in the Inland Empire, estimated the bags contained about 1 million pennies — with a face value…

Aerial view of the central part of the site from the southwest. Credit: Conrad Schmidt A tip from the local population had led the archaeologists from Frankfurt to the area near the city of Ibra in Oman, where they found several settlements. Irini Biezeveld and her fellow doctoral researcher Jonas Kluge were staying in the country in the east of the Arabian Peninsula for six weeks of field research under supervision of the…

Newmont’s $17.5 billion recommended takeover of Australia’s Newcrest boosts its exposure to a key metal in the energy transition. Newmont’s $17.5 billion recommended takeover of Australia’s Newcrest boosts its exposure to a key metal in the energy transition. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful…

Jay Stephens (right) collects samples of copper ore from a mine in Africa. Credit: Jay StephensA researcher from the University of Missouri and colleagues employed geochemical analysis on copper objects to uncover centuries of previously unknown connections within the region.According to a University of Missouri researcher and his colleagues, chemical and isotopic analysis of copper artifacts from southern Africa has unveiled new cultural connections among the people living in the region between the 5th and 20th…

Copper axe from Frömkenberg (Germany) in the Scanning Electron Microscope of the Institute of Materials Science at Kiel University. Through the lead isotope analyses in this study, the origin of the copper of the axe was identified as the Belovode region of Serbia, more than 1000 km away from the site. Credit: Christin Szillus, Kiel University, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The geochemistry of copper…

Metal markets seem to think copper is the new lithium. A lack of new mining activity has added to worries that there won’t be enough of the red metal for the energy transition, a popular topic at this week’s World Copper Conference in Santiago, Chile.South America currently dominates copper production and Chile is the largest mined producer. Increasing mine output has proved a challenge, prompting a wave of deal making in the industry and warnings of a serious supply shortfall over the next decade.…

Copper slag from one of the city’s workshops. Credit: T. BürgeResearchers from the University of Gothenburg have uncovered evidence that highlights the significance of the Cypriot village of Hala Sultan Tekke during the Late Bronze Age. Through excavations, the team has established that the village’s strategic location and its abundant reserves of the coveted metal copper played a crucial role in making it one of the most important trade hubs during the early stages of international trade in the Mediterranean. The…

Jay Stephens (right) collects samples of copper ore from a mine in Africa. Credit: Jay Stephens Chemical and isotopic analysis of copper artifacts from southern Africa reveals new cultural connections among people living in the region between the 5th and 20th centuries according to a University of Missouri researcher and colleagues. …

Imported goods from Sardinia (1), Italy (2), Crete (3), Greece (4), Türkiye (5), Israel (6), Egypt (7), Iraq (8), necklace with beads and a scarab (Ramesses II) from Egypt, Afghanistan and India (9) have all been found in Hala Sultan Tekke. Credit: University of Gothenburg Excavations led by researchers from the University of Gothenburg show that the coveted metal copper and a sheltered location turned the Cypriot village of…