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Copper was first used by man over 10,000 years ago. A copper pendant discovered in what is now northern Iraq has been dated about 8,700 B. ...
For five milleniums copper was used for everything metal. Early copper artifacts were first decorative then for utilities. ... native copper,? pure copper found with copper-bearing ores in different places around the world. By 5,000 BC, evidence exists of the smelting of simple copper oxide ores such as malachite and azurite. ... , silver and lead were being used and the alloying of copper had started with arsenic and tin. ... Economy in the use of copper and its alloys was necessitated by early trade and this efficiency in use and re-use has continued from then to now.
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