Has anyone sold canadian pennies for melt

[quiksilver]

Has anyone sold canadian pennies for melt ,how much did you get, and who bought them?

 

[TheRandyMan]

Yeah...its "float copper"...yeah, dats the ticket!!!

http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=506453

 

[captainfwiffo]

I've got some chunks of native copper I picked out of copper country mine dumps. With copper as high as it is, I wonder if it's worth picking through the old mine tailings up there. They weren't all that thorough back then.

 

[kb4iqm]

I'm fairly close to large copper mines. There's copper sulphate laden ore piles, slag piles, and tailings piles, along the roads in the region. Ex-miners here say the chunks of slag in those piles is still 40% copper. They really look like broken chunks of copper colored hardened lava. I picked up a few 5 - 10 lb chunks here and there and tested them with a DVM. They were conductive, but are not pure enough for the scrap dealers to buy as-is. Some locals use the smaller chunks for gravel in their driveways.

Students from geology classes all around the country come here to study the deposits and take samples. Anyone can park on the side of the road and collect hundreds of pounds of the stuff in short order. The mines were shut down many decades ago after the main shaft flooded and killed a bunch of miners.

The EPA has been forcing cleanups in the worst areas due to sulfuric acid and other compounds leaching out of the ore and tailings piles into the ground water and waterways. The slag is apparently not an issue to them. The remediation I've seen done so far is they cover the tailings piles with dirt, lay down plastic sheets, more dirt, then plant with wheat grass. The plastic prevents rainwater from washing through the piles. I feel it would make more sense for them to just haul off the piles and recover the metals, but the EPA won't let them process any more ore in this area.

Bob

 

[kb4iqm]

Here's a few pics of copper slag piles. They claim that this copper colored lava-like rock is 40% copper.

 

[dp2013]

Based on the chart I separate my Canadians in 3 main categories. 1942-1979 (3.24g, 98%cu), 1980-1981 (2.8g, 98% cu) and 1982-1996 (2.5g, 98% cu). The 1997-present gets sent back into the wild. Here in the south I average 3 Canadian Cu per 50 rolls.


Composition throughout history (Canadian) * source: Wikipedia
Years Mass Diameter/Shape Composition[12]
2000–present 2.35 g 19.05 mm, round 94% steel, 1.5% nickel, 4.5% copper plated zinc
1997–1999 2.25 g 19.05 mm, round 98.4% zinc, 1.6% copper plating
1982–1996 2.5 g 19.1 mm, 12-sided 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1980–1981 2.8 g 19.0 mm, round 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1978–1979 3.24 g 19.05 mm, round 98% copper, 1.75% tin, 0.25% zinc
1942–1977 3.24 g 19.05 mm, round 98% copper, 0.5% tin, 1.5% zinc
1920–1941 3.24 g 19.05 mm, round 95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc
1876–1920 5.67 g 25.4 mm, round 95.5% copper, 3% tin, 1.5% zinc
1858–1859 4.54 g 25.4 mm, round 95% copper, 4% tin, 1% zinc

 

[underdogger]

Wow it pays to be near the border. I get 2 per roll consistantly. I have been rolling them by date out of boredom (disabled) Plus I have two M&M containers full of them That is about 50 dollars worth of them face. JUst figured I would go to Canada on vacation some day.

 

[conpewter]

If your plan is to sell them as scrap someday, I'd throw all the 98% copper ones together, doesn't matter that they have different weights, you'll be selling the lot by weight anyway.