Its cargo included 800 kg of copper ingots and about 1,700 bronze artefacts.

Ecstatic borrowers could expect to turn a profit merely by investing the proceeds in, say, copper ingots or canned tuna.

Files of copper ingots slid remorselessly ahead of the moving barrier.

Teal was in the process of commissioning their furnace to produce black copper ingots, with the capacity to handle rather more than half the concentrate.

In his office the smelter was cold and the copper ingot lay ready for removal.

The copper ingots were used to produce penny and halfpenny tokens.

Where Ptar had stood, there was now a neat pile of copper ingots.

The pithoi were not the chief cargo, which was 10 tons of copper ingots.

The plates from the copper ingots were made by hammering them on a nearby rock.

The payment was to be made in copper ingots.