Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu and atomic number 29. Copper or The Copper may also refer to: Color Copper (color), the color of the metal Copper (heraldry), when used as a metal tincture in heraldry Places Copper Mountain (disambiguation) Copper Lake (disambiguation) United States Copper, Oregon (disambiguation) Copper, Jackson County, Oregon, a submerged town Copper Salmon Wilderness, Oregon Copper Mine Gulch, California Copper Mountains, Arizona Copper Peak, Michigan Copper Country, an area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan Copper River (Alaska), a 300-mile (480 km) river in south-central Alaska Other Copper Coast or "Copper Triangle", an area of South Australia noted for its mining Copper Nunataks, Antarctic Peninsula People Surname Copper family, a long-established English family of folk singers Basil Copper (1924–2013), English writer and journalist Ger Copper (1953-2020), Dutch magician Kahleah Copper (born 1994), basketball player Terrance Copper (born 1982), American footballer Nickname Copper Kent (1891 – ), Australian rugby union player Arts and entertainment Copper (comic), a web and print comic by Kazu Kibuishi Copper (TV series), a BBC America period TV drama 2012–2013 Rookie Blue (working title Copper), a Canadian police drama 2010–2015 The Copper (1930 film), a British-German film directed by Richard Eichberg The Copper (1958 film), a West German film directed by Eugen York "Copper", a song by Shellac from Terraform Copper, a fictional dog in the 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound (novel) and its 1981 film adaptation, The Fox and the Hound Biology Copper-colored restrepia, a copper-colored orchid Copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus), also known as the bronze whaler or narrowtooth shark Copperhead may refer to any of three different species of snakes: Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America Austrelaps, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania Elaphe radiata (copperhead rat snake), a nonvenomous species found in southern Asia The coppers, a nickname for the Lycaeninae, a family of butterflies Copper ant-blue (Acrodipsas cuprea), found in Australia, from southern Queensland to Victoria Copper pencil-blue (Candalides cyprotus), found along the east coast of Australia, including South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria The copper underwing (Amphipyra pyramidea), a moth of the family Noctuidae, distributed across the Palaearctic region Elements, materials, and technology Copper, a coin of low value, brown- or copper-colored Copper, a shaped ingot or ornamental sheet of the metal used by indigenous tribes of the North