In a closet in a room in the basement of my house lies a large chuck of raw copper. Corroded with a green and white patina, from its years of oxidation, the parts that still keep their brown color show no shine, and large blobs stick out of the sides that once connected it to the cave wall. When I would play in that room, I always thought that it was just some decoration, and I never knew the story behind it. Until one day mw and my dad were sitting around a camp fire and my brothers were asking for a story. I was expecting him to tell the same scary story he tell every time they ask this question, but this time he had something different to tell us. “Ok, I’ll tell you about the ghosts in the mine.” he spoke in his scary voice. “Back when
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We have found a good sized piece of copper attached to the wall with several jagged points. We were trying to detach it with things like a hammer and chisel, and a …show more content…
Then I dipped it in the water. The next time we came the mine I tried the chisel for a while, however heat treating also makes the metal more brittle and after only an hour or so it shattered. Then I remembered that my blow torch was in the car, the melting temperature of copper was 1,984 F, and my blow torch could reach that temperature. I ran outside grabbed my blow torch and held the flame up to one of the chucks holding it the wall. Twenty minutes later one of my friends shout “Jon! HEY JON, YOUR HAIR IS ON FIRE” A few minutes later I was back to work with the blowtorch, and with slightly less hair. However, I felt a part of the copper and it wasn’t even warm. I realized that there must be a giant chunk of copper behind the wall taking all of the heat. I called to my friends, “I going to take a Break,” and headed off to explore more of the caverns. I was walking down a strait passageway with about an inch of water. As I walk from up ahead for just a second I could heard something walking, and so I stopped. The walking stopped too. I looked ahead and I could see a white figure back down the passageway. I shouted to them
We have found a good sized piece of copper attached to the wall with several jagged points. We were trying to detach it with things like a hammer and chisel, and a …show more content…
Then I dipped it in the water. The next time we came the mine I tried the chisel for a while, however heat treating also makes the metal more brittle and after only an hour or so it shattered. Then I remembered that my blow torch was in the car, the melting temperature of copper was 1,984 F, and my blow torch could reach that temperature. I ran outside grabbed my blow torch and held the flame up to one of the chucks holding it the wall. Twenty minutes later one of my friends shout “Jon! HEY JON, YOUR HAIR IS ON FIRE” A few minutes later I was back to work with the blowtorch, and with slightly less hair. However, I felt a part of the copper and it wasn’t even warm. I realized that there must be a giant chunk of copper behind the wall taking all of the heat. I called to my friends, “I going to take a Break,” and headed off to explore more of the caverns. I was walking down a strait passageway with about an inch of water. As I walk from up ahead for just a second I could heard something walking, and so I stopped. The walking stopped too. I looked ahead and I could see a white figure back down the passageway. I shouted to them