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  1. The Other Man’s Job. Making Copper Cables

    Date released
    1 Feb 1943
    Series name
    Warwork News
    Issue no
    S15/15; Paramount Issue No.: 1244
    NoS ID
    156607
    Story no
    2 / 3

    Blister copper is refined in furnace; white hot copper is moulded into bars and cooled. At mills, bars are made into copper rods which in turn become copper wire. This is coiled and stranded and made into...

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  2. Copper Penny with Concentrated Nitric Acid

    Director
    Jerrold J. Jacobsen
    Producer
    James H. Maynard
    Subject
    Chemistry

    The reaction of a copper penny and concentrated nitric acid (15 M) is shown. Red-brown nitrogen dioxide is generated and some of the copper dissolves to form a blue solution of copper(II) nitrate. [2 minutes]

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  3. Broken Lance (1954 Film)

    Director
    Edward Dmytryk
    Producer
    Sol C. Siegel

    Feature film western. The story concerns Matt Devereaux (Tracy), a cattle baron who in his brutal ambition to build a ranching empire tyrannises his three eldest sons - Ben, Denny and Mike. Only Joe, his son...

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  4. Train blown up in Rhodesia (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Rhodesian CID officer Tim Mealey(?) or Healey(?) on black nationalist guerillas blowing up a train carrying copper from Zambia. Male interviewer not identified.

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  5. Short story (1986)

    aka: The Adventure of the copper beeches [Part 1 and 2]

    Serialised Sherlock Holmes Adventures. Drama for radio, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Hamish Wilson

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  6. Opencast Mine Boosts Copper Output

    Date released
    17 Apr 1950
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1996
    NoS ID
    042309
    Story no
    6 / 7

    World’s largest deposit of copper is opened up two miles high in Andes mountains.

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  7. Refining Copper from the Sudbury Nickel Ores (1959 Film)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Detailed description of the refining of copper from the relatively crude 97% pure blister copper to the electrolytically refined copper of 99.97% purity.

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  8. Copper Resources and Reserves (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £55.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Traces the history of copper extraction from Roman times to the end of the 19th century, and then looks at copper demand in the 20th century and how new technologies such as froth flotation enable copper to...

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  9. Copper Gold Mine

    Date released
    3 Jun 1940
    Series name
    Pathetone Weekly
    Issue no
    531
    NoS ID
    124525
    Story no
    4 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    At Morenei, in Arizona, a copper mine has been opened up that’s a mile and a half wide, and along the mountain-like side the new town of Stargo houses the twelve hundred workers and their families.

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  10. Rhodesian Highlights

    Date released
    28 Jan 1960
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1599A
    NoS ID
    023434
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rhodesian Highlights. DESCRIPTION: Another highlight of Mr Macmillan’s African tour was his visit to the copper-belt in Northern Rhodesia. Copper is to Rhodesia as gold is to South...

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