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Jan 18/15 – Don’t miss the message that copper is sending

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Kevin Muir
Jan 14, 2015
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The photo above was taken in 1903 at Chititu Creek, Alaska. What you are looking at is a 3 ton native copper nugget. It’s being a while since mining was as easy as scooping up monster nuggets sitting on the creek bed. Nowadays copper mining is a capital intensive affair that involves digging deep into the earth’s surface and processing tons of rock to y…

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