Some History on Copper

Copper is a beautiful metal. Without copper, there would be no civilization as we know it.
Humans started working copper in North America in Michigan and Wisconsin, in what is now called the Old Copper Complex in 4000 BC; the rest is history.

Copper, symbol Cu, is atomic number 29 on the periodic table.

Copper has many useful proporties, and until it became easily refined in the bronze age, some civilizations considered copper as valuable as gold. Copper(Cu) lies above silver(Ag), which is above Gold(Au) on the periodic table. What this means physically is copper, silver, and gold have similar proporties and characteristics. All three are very shiny, highly conductive, and malleable (Gold and Silver are used in high end electronics because of their extremely high conductivity).
Copper, now like always, is one of the more most valuable metals and is incorporated in almost all of the most advanced technology in the world.

Copper is used for piping in houses, but a little less well know, is its use in electric motors, transformers, solenoids, coins, and pharmaceuticals. It's reacted with non-metals to make a salt, and then sold as a commercial grade weed killer. Its also a necessary mineral to the human body. It's alloyed with tin to make bronze or zink to make brass. Technically, in the most original sense of the word, a bronze is any alloy containing copper, hence brass is a type of bronze. Brass and bronze are used to make ammunition shells, horns, door knobs, guitar strings, and 3rd place medals.