There is no sign the U.S. Mint will stop pressing pennies, but Trump's pledge to stop making them is already being felt in ...

WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Two people are now facing felony charges nearly a year after a 10-year-old boy was killed in a jet ski crash on Old Hickory Lake. Officers with the Tennessee ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Two people have now been charged after a 10-year-old died in a jet ski incident last summer on Old Hickory Lake while the child attended a summer camp. The crash left ...

High-Grade Copper Mineralization: Surface rock chip samples have returned copper values of up to 10.1% Cu, with mineralization hosted in Paleoproterozoic sediments along the Murky Channel Fault.

PHOENIX — As the "Copper State," Arizona has deep ties to the cent. With President Trump now seeking to end the penny’s production, coin shops in the Valley are preparing for life without the ...

The wager is that those older pennies contain copper that would be worth about $180,000 at current prices. One snag: It’s illegal to melt a mass of Lincoln cents to harvest the metal. But penny ...

Copper prices jumped by more than 5% in New York — leaping further above other global benchmarks — as US President Donald Trump suggested imports of the metal could be subject to a 25% tariff.

And without the penny, the whole thing faces an uncertain future. New copper pennies vanished from circulation in 1982 — 73 years after the first Lincoln penny was minted — and were replaced ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Two Lake Charles men are accused of trying to steal large amounts of copper wire. Calvin L. Droddy, 35, and Kenneth P. Petty, 38, were arrested by Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s ...

We owe a lot to copper. But the metal now faces an uncertain future as manufacturers prepare to expand its use to make the electric cars, renewable power plants, and other devices that will help ...

President Trump’s plan to eliminate the penny could save the government money ... specific materials (mostly zinc for pennies, mostly copper for nickels). Rhett Jeppson, a former chief executive ...

The coin was larger and made of pure copper, while today’s penny is made of copper and zinc. During the colonial period, people used a mixture of coins from other countries. A popular coin was ...