Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Seven thousand years in the service of humanity: the history of copper, the red metal
LuleƄ University of Technology, Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7996-6136
2009 (English)In: Resources policy, ISSN 0301-4207, E-ISSN 1873-7641, Vol. 34, no 4, p. 176-184Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Measured by weight, copper is the third most important metal used by man. The annual value of its 2007 output was on a par with the GDP of e.g. Ukraine. Copper is also one of the oldest metals, its employment going back 7000 years. For millennia, it was predominantly employed for decorative purposes, coinage and in warfare. Technical breakthroughs in antiquity, like smelting and alloying, expanded its production and enhanced its utility. Copper's true heyday occurred after 1850, with the usage of electricity. In the period since then, volumes increased 300-fold, while costs and prices declined. With impressive progress in the technology of its production and consumption, the red metal has been able to hold its own, despite the emergence over history of formidable substitutes like iron, aluminum, plastics and optic fiber.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2009. Vol. 34, no 4, p. 176-184
National Category
Economics
Research subject
Economics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-4727DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2009.03.003ISI: 000271692800002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-70349814648Local ID: 2b905390-3686-11de-98cd-000ea68e967bOAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-4727DiVA, id: diva2:977601
Note
Validerad; 2009; 20090501 (ysko)Available from: 2016-09-29 Created: 2016-09-29 Last updated: 2023-09-05Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Radetzki, Marian

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Radetzki, Marian
By organisation
Social Sciences
In the same journal
Resources policy
Economics

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 59 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf