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Time
Space to think about something else
Idea
Story/vision/challenge
Planning
Plan idea to a point where it can be tested
Scratch
Analysis
Filtering/Deciphering feedback
Feedback
Test
Experiment/creative risk
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Listening/gathering responses
Lifecycle
Lifecycle of copper
(A)
Mining
Sulfide ores are taken from huge open pit mines by drilling and blasting
The ore is scooped by shovels and is loaded into trucks and transported up and out of the pit
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100% Recyclable
Scrap dealers
Consumer
scrap
Scrap Exports
0.5 million tonnes
Mining
0.9 million tonnes
Production & Recycling
0.9 million tonnes
Factory scrap
Semi-fabricated products:
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Pipes, sections, sheets, wires.
Take back schemes and collections
Cars
Houses
Devices
Turbine
Copper is 100% recyclable:
It can be recycled without loss of performance or quality
(B)
Concentrating
Ore
Crusher
Water
Grinder
Reagants
Flotation Cells
Air
(C)
Smelting
(D)
Refining
(E)
Casting
Refining furnace
Air-Oxygen
Silica Flux
Heat
Ingots remelted to make brass products
Slag
Silica Flux
Air
Slag
Copper concentration
Anchodes
Slag
Electrolytic refining
Cakes
Hot rolled and cold rolled to produce sheet, strip, and foil
Billets
Slime
Cathodes
Precious metal recovery
Extruded or drawn to make copper tubing and pipe
Rods
Drawn to produce wire
Blister copper
Potential uses
Potential uses
RHS Chelsea 2016
There are common themes running through the garden to hold everything together beautifully. Strong textures, solid-looking succulents, yuccas and peeling barks, balanced by wispy grasses and delicate perennials have been used to create an overall very strong, bold, definite design. The flower show has the shape of an arch made of two strips: the one for sitting was made of wood; the backrest was made of copper and was pierced with math formulas.
Courtyard garden with copper rill water feature
Storing water in copper works as a purification process. It can kill all the microorganisms like moulds, fungi, algae and bacteria, present in the water that could be harmful for the human body.
Copper Bands
Copper Band
Slug Bands have all the advantages of copper rings, but as they are made from much thinner copper, it means they can easily be clipped together to make much larger rings around the plants. They are more flexible, so can be bent into various shapes.
link to site
Link to Bristol & history of site
Slave trade was a main drivers for the development of Bristol brass industry as brass products and copper were exported to africa to be exchanged for slaves. The copper smelting work was established by the Bristol brass and wire company in around 1710. In around 1750, the brass company started casting the waste copper slag into moulds to produce Bristol black building blocks.
Bristol
"Bristol was a major port in the trade"
Bristol played a major part in the transatlantic slave trade, with Bristol merchants financing over 2000 slaving voyages between 1698 and 1807. These ships carried over 500,000 enslaved Africans from Africa to slave labour in the Americas.
Local paper
"Enslaved africans were advertised"
If an enslaved African was brought into Bristol and sold as a house servant, it was usually by word-of-mouth or an advertisement in the local paper. Felix Farley’s Bristol Journaladvertised ‘A Negroe Boy, about Ten years old, He has had the Small-Pox’ for sale in August 1760, enquiries to the Printing Office in Small Street.
Street names
"Street names are connected to slavery"
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Colston Street was named after Edward Colston, well known for his involvement in the slave and sugar trade: however there are many other lesser known connections.
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​ Elton Road – the Elton family were investors in the brass industry, and also owned slave ships.
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Farr Lane – the Farrs were rope makers and slave traders.
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Tyndalls Avenue – the Tyndalls invested in slaving ventures.
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Winterstoke Road – Lord Winterstoke was head of the Wills family, associated with the slave-grown commodity of tobacco.
Pero's Bridge
Pero Jones was born enslaved on Nevis. He was bought by John Pinney and brought to Bristol around 1790, when the Pinneys left Nevis. Pero was Pinney’s valet, and worked for him for over 30 years, though he was never freed. The footbridge was named after Pero in tribute to the many unknown African men, women and children who were enslaved by Bristol’s merchants.
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