Russian scientists studied artefacts from cultural layer of the Vorovskaya Yama mine, situated in the Chelyabinsk region, and found out that there, apart from ore production, people made metalworking. About 1500 years BCE masters melted out products from copper and tin bronze.
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New Material Designed by Berkeley Lab ‘Mines’ Copper from Toxic Wastewater
A research team led by Berkeley Lab has designed a new material – called ZIOS (zinc imidazole salicylaldoxime) – that extracts copper ions from mine wastewater with unprecedented precision and speed.