Welcome to RHL Copper Queen.  It will be nice to see some Texas rocks you've been collecting.  As far as copper goes I'm not experienced myself with cutting it. There are people here that either own or have access to rock saws and hopefully they will chime in to give you advice. Were these infused bricks used for construction, are they man-made? I hadn't heard of them before. I do know that if you are grinding or polishing copper in a lapidary machine (cabbing machine) then you should be wearing a face mask as I know that copper is toxic so you don't want to inhale the dust.

I guess I should have been a bit more clear, the copper bricks were firebricks used in a copper smelter. I'm guessing these were at the bottom of the smelter and after 50+ years of usage the molten copper has completely saturated the bricks. In many cases multiple bricks are fused together and these pieces are incredibly heavy, it took myself and another person to lift them into the truck. There are non-infused bricks there too, they are very light like pumice.

Googling "copper firebricks" led me to several ads by lapidary artists that are working with this type of material from smelters in Michigan. In short it is industrial waste that when cut and polished is very attractive.

Making jewelry out of it is probably not realistic for me, last thing I need is another hobby. Finding some use like paper weights or bookends with several polished sides and several natural sides they would make great gifts for donating benefactors (assuming I ever find any) for a historic restoration in the town where the smelter was located.

I've picked up what is easy to get to, but there is lots more on a very steep slope, and they are BIG pieces. My best idea for getting the big pieces is to rappel down to them with a drill, drill a hole and screw an eyebolt into it, hook a cable to it and winch it out. I'm also trying to find someone with an XRF gun to shoot it and see what the exact metal content is. The copper ore body there is noted as having a high gold concentration too, so if its got gold I'll be selling it all to a refiner and using the proceeds to restore the building, but I doubt I'm that lucky

Welcome! That sounds like a fascinating collecting trip.
Wow. I would love to see those bricks. I love copper.
I can think of a million things I would like to see made out of them: small shallow bowls for rings by the sink, all kinds of art (cut them into squares or rectangles for all kinds of applications), spheres, coasters ( just cut thin slices and don't polish)...that just came up in 30 seconds.
Oh! a door stop, as is...gorgeous. super beautiful boot scraper for outside your door 
Could you incorporate into furniture? legs on a small table
They would make one super beautiful fire ring. Or cut like tile and on a fireplace would be amazing.
Keep us posted on your story and what happens to the bricks, please. It is so inspiring.
Also, wouldn't a big strap and a come-along be better than a drill and bolt and winch?

When cutting aluminum plate, that also loads a cutting wheel or saw blade, using a synthetic wax toilet bowl ring eliminates this problem. I've never cut copper ,but, It may be worth a go.
good luck
scott  from  tennessee

Oh yeah, that piece is approx half of a brick, tossed it on scale and its 16 Lbs.