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...Paul Scott’s “sampler” collages use details of original patterns drawn from hand-engraved copper plates in the Spode Works archives in Stoke-on-Trent....
...“We’d never just draw a pretty leaf. Ours are always being munched on by caterpillars,” says Simmons. “It’s far more interesting to look at. It’s a Darwinian struggle out there....
...Demand and supply: Copper rallies on hopes of China economic rebound Taxation: Scotland top-rate tax rises widen gap with rest of UK Demand and supply: Why the price of oil has dropped despite new constraints...
...Besides the odd Nissan Leaf that turns up, most models have years of life left. EVs comprised just 9.1 per cent of US new car sales in the second quarter of this year....
...Specifically, he wants the region’s place within the UK, and ability to trade with Britain, copper-fastened in law....
...Lots of warehouses, factories, and all that, where there is quite a lot of criminal activity, cable theft, copper theft....
...The probe in the southern African nation is the latest headache for Glencore, which has been trying to turn over a fresh leaf under new chief executive Gary Nagle....
...His “copper’s brain” and bearing mean that his every perception is stated, measured, queried, countered, undone and then refigured or returned to its original form....
...And so it was, too, from “snail” to “spiral” in mid-November, or from “branch” to “leaf” a few days after that....
...The proposal is due to be discussed at a board meeting of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...Last year he moved the restaurant’s Chinatown digs to a spectacular – and 10 times larger – space in Dempsey: all wood cladding, bold hanging lights, gleaming copper details and a long, long dining bar....
...Copper-coloured saucepans sit atop a marble counter for the buffet. Bells in the shape of elephant heads adorn a wall....
...Robertson’s Tiger Management beat the S&P 500 in 14 of the years between 1980 and 2000, helped by trades such as shorting the price of copper in 1996 and betting against the Thai baht the following year....
...Hanging above the globe is an antique lantern that Leith commissioned her niece Amy Douglas to customise with gold leaf and copper cut-outs of birds and monkeys....
...She has personalised the process by sandblasting and sealing the black glass vessel before applying copper leaf to the interior, which gives it a soft glow. Others are forging their own path....
...Instead of showing hieratic virgins or saints, though, they are completely covered by hand in gold leaf....
...It had gold-leaf walls and £4,300 sharing cocktails, served in ice troughs carved in the form of Swiss chalets. Burned by the 2008 crash, Coco quickly melted into a pool of its own excess....
...I love the idea or mirrored doors and a silver leaf ceiling. Now: hardware. Choosing interesting knobs for a wardrobe is a fun job. Why not go for something unusual?...
...For a start, battery material prices are not rising in isolation — costs of aluminium, steel and copper that are also used in engine-powered models have risen since the invasion, too....
...Rio has funded Oyu Tolgoi LLC, the joint venture company developing the project, through shareholder loans....
...Even a trace of copper makes second-hand aluminium more corrosive, and so useless to carmakers....
...Blended with local botanicals including blackcurrant leaf, douglas fir and lovage, the result is bright, fresh and beautifully balanced....
...“This would be contrary to the explanations the government received from Oyu Tolgoi LLC and Rio Tinto,” it said in a statement....
...TRQ in turns owns 66 per cent of Oyu Tolgoi LLC, with the rest controlled by the government of Mongolia....
...In a former nightclub just by Waverley train station in Edinburgh stands a mound of earth dotted with patches of gold and copper leaf, framed by strands of metallic thread hanging from the ceiling....
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