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    sjones99 is offline Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperDave View Post
    I suspect a drop in copper prices. Canada has done away with the penny and the gov't is selling it for scrap. Federal officials said more than 35 billion pennies have been minted in Canada in the past 104 years. This, they've noted, would weigh 94 million kilograms. – or as much as 1,500 Leopard 2 tanks.
    They werent copper anyways lol


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    Quote Originally Posted by sjones99 View Post
    They werent copper anyways lol
    Well, they were until 1997. But how many earlier pennies were already re-smelted into newer pennies how many times over? The Canadian Mint has been pulling earlier coins with higher value base metals from circulation for years. And how many of those tons (literally) of pennies were later steel/zinc ones? And consider that just as many pennies are going to be forgotten under seat cushions, or hoarded in change jars as before, if not more now. So yeah, Canada no longer making a penny, and it slowly being phased out of use, will have absolutely zero effect on the price of copper.

    I save my copper for shipping until I have at least a few hundred lbs. to cover shipping. That's because the local price is so bad compared to shipping the same product out to Vancouver. For example, #2 is $2.60 locally, $3.15 on the coast. And it only costs about $110 to ship 2 gaylords double-stacked, so pretty much all my copper, brass, etc. ends up going that way.
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