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A Canadian biotechnology company has expressed an aim to cultivate medical marijuana in a former copper mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The company has been growing other types of plants in the mine for more than a decade.
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Hard times and rising prices for scrap metal are leading people to take insane risks stealing from the railway and electricity substations. Some are caught and prosecuted; others are not so lucky.
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Researchers at the University of Granada (UGR) announced they have confirmed low levels of zinc and copper in pregnant women's plasma are associated with miscarriage, a complication that affects up to 15 percent of pregnant women, the scientists claimed.
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When the phones stopped ringing for hours in Quincy, Massachusetts customers were puzzled. It seems industrious thieves had made off with telephone wires from two of the city's utility poles.
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Today, six days since the cave-in of a tunnel in a copper and gold mine buried 33 mining workers near the city of Copiapó in the Atacama Desert, intense efforts to contact and rescue the workers have not succeeded.
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Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a pyramid used not to bury the dead, but for the living. The 1,400-year-old structure is near the country’s coast, and scholars speculate the inhabitants were master coppersmiths.
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While NATO countries, and especially the US, lose lives in Afghanistan and invest billions into the so-called war against terrorism, China invests, works and builds; and will soon harvest rich treasure.
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Copper prices hit a high on Friday of just over $3 a pound and is a strong indicator that economic recovery is at hand as construction and technologies have increased their demands.
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Thousands of Congolese refugees are fleeing from killing-raids in ongoing warfare which has already killed 5-million people. The raids by the Ugandan Lords' Resistance Army now concentrate on killing all the villagers and torching their homes.
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A suspected thief was severely burned on a utility poll in Dallas, causing Fire-Rescue to have to rescue him. The incident caused more than $10,000 in damage.
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Why Chile is dunking its mined rocks into microbes
 A Canadian biotechnology company wants to cultivate medical marijuana in a former copper mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where it has been growing plants for more than a decade.
BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto announce plans to expand the Escondida mine in Chile in a bid to boost their copper output.
 A look at what Canadian pennies are made of and what some of them could soon be worth
Indonesia is to impose a tax on exports of 14 raw minerals, including copper and gold, in an attempt to encourage local processing.
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