![[copper]](d223a.jpg) | This copper specimen comes from upper Michigan, North America's largest copper producer from 1850 to 1887. Native Americans mined copper in this region as long as 5,000 years ago. Michigan mines were responsible for one of the first great immigrations of miners and mining engineers to this country.
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