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Tongling Copper Heritage

Mine shafts, nearby furnaces and slag blocks tell the material story of ancient copper production.

Archaeological sites in Tongling show how ore was raised from shafts and smelted in nearby furnaces across several historical periods.

At night, Tongling’s bronze-chalice sculpture catches the streetlights above passing traffic—a modern civic emblem for a city whose history is closely tied to copper.
At night, Tongling’s bronze-chalice sculpture catches the streetlights above passing traffic—a modern civic emblem for a city whose history is closely tied to copper.

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  1. At night, Tongling’s bronze-chalice sculpture catches the streetlights above passing traffic—a modern civic emblem for a city whose history is closely tied to copper.Rui NI (Ranqus) · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Photograph by Rui NI (Ranqus), dated 14 July 2018; the Commons file page records CC BY-SA 4.0. The saved file is the standard 960px thumbnail (960×1428), not the upstream original (1270×1889); no enlargement, crop or retouching.