The Collaborative International Dictionary
Copper works
Copper works \Cop"per works`\
A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.
--Woodward.
Usage examples of "copper works".
More importantly to me, the duke was going to finance the whole copper works!
There are paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Chatillon, at Audincourt, and at Beure, are tolerably large.