Stephanie - 12/11/2008 6:51:49 PM
No on discovered it!
The Statue of Liberty is covered with 200,000 pounds of copper sheeting
Copper — the World's Most Reusable Resource
The copper on that penny maybe as old as the pharaohs, because copper has an infinite recyclable life.
Copper may be the oldest elemental metal known to mankind
A modern "copper penny" is mostly zinc and is only 2.4% copper. Cents made before 1982 (1943 excepted), and some made in 1982, were 95% copper and 5% zinc.
The average home contains 400 pounds of copper
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