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> You can't melt them down Sure you can, you just have to find an unscrupulous copper merchant to sell it to. Not a difficult task - they've been around for th
by kelseyfrog 1y ago
> You can't melt them down
Sure you can, you just have to find an unscrupulous copper merchant to sell it to. Not a difficult task - they've been around for thousands of years.
- dehugger 1y agoThe oldest recorded profession?
- defrost 1y agoand North American (possibly) also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Copper_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Copper_complex I'd expected older sites elsewhere, but apparently parts of that complex predate copper workings elsewhere (and the Bronze Age (copper and tin metalworking)).