At a fairly young age, Frederick Augustus Heinze d...  ...rick Augustus Heinze developed a process to smelt copper from low-grade ore before it was even brought to...  ...einze kept buying mines until his company, United Copper , became one of the biggest copper producers in Mon...

You may hear jokes about "oceanfront property in A...  ...its volcanic history was a rich vein of valuable copper , which drew miners. Now the mines are an open rec...

What happened when you toss a ho...  ...means the cleanest -- way to extract copper from plastic and rubber. But something interestin...  ...nsulation that wraps around insulated copper wire, and devised a way to make into...