WordNet
copper mine
n. a mine where copper is dug from the ground
Usage examples of "copper mine".
As a matter of fact, I did not attempt to sell the copper mine to James Taggart, either.
This is no place to start a copper mine, even if there's any copper here, which there probably isn't.
He's a crew foreman for a copper mine in a colony called Ore City.
Hariot full of tales of a wonderful copper mine on the River Maratock (Roanoke), where the metal was dipped out of the stream in great bowls.
The captain was clearly feeling possessive about this creature, just as the crew they had met earlier had seemed to feel about their copper mine.
Steel mine, glass mine, copper mine, asphalt mine-you name it, high-quality metals and alloys already smelted, plus gears and shaped stuff.