Every month the iScrap App Team is going to bring you details on various metals and materials so you can learn more about them, where to find them, how to make more money, and so much more. This month we are covering Copper.
 
What is it?

• Copper is a chemical element, a reddish, extremely ductile (able to be drawn out into a thin wire) metal. 
• It is an unusually good conductor of electricity and heat.

Where does it come from?

• Copper is found in the free metallic state in nature.
• First used in 8000 BCE, it was a substitute for stone by New Stone Age humans.
• The Roman supply of copper came almost entirely from Cyprus, known as aes Cyprium, "metal of Cyprus".
• Most copper occurs in ores and must be smelted, or extracted from its ore, for purity before it can be used. 
• About 2/3 of the copper on Earth is found in igneous (volcanic) rocks, and one 1/4 occurs in sedimentary rocks.

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