Statue of Liberty

[Moogey]

Another piece of history.

asbarez.com
Statue of Liberty Made From Armenian Copper
25 July 2010

YEREVAN (ArmInfo)-The Statue of Liberty is made of Armenian copper,
according to the president of a US mining company that owns the
Akhtala Ore Mining and Processing Works in Armenia.

Metal Prince President Serob Ter-Pogosian said he has documentary
proof that the statue, located on New York's Liberty Island, was
constructed from copper extract from the Akhtala deposit in Armenia's
northern region of Lori.

According to Ter-Pogosian, all the copper ore mined from Akhtala was
shipped to France in the 1880s when it was under the management of a
French company headed by Henry de Gaulle, father of former French
President Charles de Gaulle.

The statue built by the French and shipped to the US, was officially
inaugurated in 1886 by President Cleveland. 225 tons of copper was
used inconstructing the statue.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Statue of Liberty

It seems a dubious claim to me.

The statue of Libery was created in the late 1870s, not the 1880s. The French-owned company would have only started mining operations after the Russo-Turkish wars that ended in 1878, when the Russian Empire opened the area up to foreign investments (there was also a British-owned copper mine, the "Caucasus Copper Company", near Borchka). So I doubt if any copper was extracted before the mid 1880s.

[ara87]

Re: Statue of Liberty

even if it was who cares? it doesn't matter where the metal is from, all that matters is who produces the final product, that would be france. The could of got the copper from timbuktu or mars and it still wouldn't matter