Originally posted by dr.toast:

I know people talk about it... and youtube shows it happening. I've mined hundreds of copper and never got a node to gravity death.

Silver i have a 100% success rate
Copper 0%....

Starting to think its a photoshopped myth :D

Hmm...totally works on silver, never tried on copper. Was largely past copper mining when I realized it was a thing. Need to try this out...