Metal Prices

ScrapperChad

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Copper Here dropped to $2.13 lb just when I was planing on taking it in to sell.

I have 50lbs of it so far but will hold onto it until prices rise.

Aluminum cans are down to 36 Cents per pound and tin is down to $157 ton.

Cleaned aluminum is down to 32 cents per pound and my truck is loaded down with it as I had planned to take that in as well since they were giving 45 Cents per pound but think I'll just unload it and hold onto it too until it hopefully rises again.

I sure wish the scrap metal prices would go up again.
 

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#2 insulated wire $1.00 lb
Glass jars $.03 lb
#1 plastic bottles and other #1 plastic $.25 lb
#2 plastic color $.02 lb
#2 plastic natural $.10 lb
 

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Montana prices
#1 copper 2.35 lb
#2 copper 2.25 lb
Yellow brass 1.45 lb
 

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Yellow brass $1.70 lb
Green circuit boards $.25 lb
Brown circuit boards $.10 lb

Today in so. AZ
 

billjustbill

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North Central Texas: Sept. 10th, 2014

No. 1 Copper: $2.61
For stripped multi-strand copper wire classified as No. 1, each stran must be a min. of size No.16

No. 2 Copper: $2.49

Yellow Brass: $1.72 (another scrap yard offered this for both yellow or red)
Red : $2.00

Stainless: $0.54


Aluminum Cans: .$0.67

Aluminum Radiator/cores: $0.51 (If not aluminum, tops and bottom tanks had to be removed)

Electric Motors: $08-1/2
 

billjustbill

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Ft. Worth, Tx. Metroplex

#1 Copper $2.53
#2 Copper $2.37

Yellow Brass $1.65
Red Brass $1.93

Cast Aluminum $ .39

Aluminum Cans $ .67
 

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I pull cast and extruded aluminum from the work dumpster. Not so much company's property, but employees. Fixtures, doors, grills, etc, otherwise, it gets incinerated

Make sure you seperate and clean the non-related hardware, I've pulled 150 pounds this summer.
 

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billjustbill

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I ran across a fellow scrapper. He said he'd read that there was going to be a coming "Shortage of Zinc".

Has anyone heard of this forecast? What would cause the shortage?

Thanks,
Bill
 

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In so. AZ

#1 plastic $.30 lb
#2 plastic natural $.10 lb
Glass bottles $.04 lb
Glass jars $.03 lb
paper $.02 lb
 

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In SO. AZ

Sheet iron steel $.055 lb
Prepared steel $.08 lb
Torch prepared steel $.07 lb
Dirty Brass $.64 lb
Copper Content $.12 lb
 

billjustbill

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Sheet iron steel $.055 lb
Prepared steel $.08 lb
Torch prepared steel $.07 lb
Dirty Brass $.64 lb
Copper Content $.12 lb

Hobo, would you give or show a picture an example of what the last three types of metal are? "Ccontent, Dirty brass, Torch prepared steel" Thanks,

Bill
 

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Hobo, would you give or show a picture an example of what the last three types of metal are? "Ccontent, Dirty brass, Torch prepared steel" Thanks,

Bill

Torch prepared steel they call oversized steel
Prepared steed they say is 3' x 18" clean of plastic and other non ferrous items
Cut off plug ends as this new yard wants #2 ins wire with no ends on it for better pricing
Dirty brass brass with some steel.
 

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Die Cast Zinc $.45 lb
Dirty Alum $.27 lb
MLC alum $.48 lb
Compressor sealed units $.15
Auto transmissions $.18 lb
NiCad NiMh rechargeable batteries $.23 lb
 

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More December prices in So. AZ
#2 Ins wire $.96 lb
Cu/Alu Radiator $1.62 lb
Aluminum Radiator $.54 lb
Yellow Brass $1.72 lb
Newspapers $.02 lb
#1 plastic $.40 lb
#2 plastic natural $.10 lb
Green circuit boards $.15 lb
Brown circuit boards $.10 lb
Cast Alum $.55 lb
Auto Batts $.27 lb
Stainless steel $.45 lb
Dirty Stainles $.12 lb
#2 copper $2.30 lb
lead $.40 lb
Electric motors $.20 lb
Extruded ALum $.70 lb
 

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