copper prices

**Mick** · 12-01-2012, 07:17 AM

Originally Posted by wayne1956

Hopefully it will rise. I am sitting on about 800 lbs right now waiting for it to go up. I will probably dump it all when I can get $3 a lb for #2. Right now it is about $2.50 a lb.

That's my goal. I have a local buyer who will contact me when he'll offer $3/lb.

**wayne1956** · 12-03-2012, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Mick

That's my goal. I have a local buyer who will contact me when he'll offer $3/lb.

Wow, I never thought of that. I think I might contact all the buyers in a hundred mile radius, find out who pays the best, then ask him to do the same. I will probably be pushing a half ton by the time it gets there, so with this quantity he might go ahead and pay it when he is paying everyone else around $2.85 or so, that way he does not risk me possibly selling elsewhere.

**auminer** · 12-03-2012, 08:40 PM

My yard paid $3/# for #2 this morning. Too bad I only had 10#, but I had to get rid of 500# of steel which was filling up the little Frontier! Wayne, this yard is in Garland.... I posted a pic of my first ever scrap receipt a couple of weeks ago, shouldn't be hard to figure out who I'm talking about.