Lead Ingot

CjG3 · Sep 23, 2023

I dug this up a couple weeks ago. It was too heavy to carry around with me so I stuck it in the truck of the car (and forgot about it)
What does one do with a five pound lead ingot?

cudamark · Sep 23, 2023

I sell all my lead except for some dive weights. I have a local buyer that pays $1 lb. for it. Good fishing weights can go for even more if you're willing to spend the time sorting and selling them in smaller quantities.

Back-of-the-boat · Sep 23, 2023

I make fishing weights with all my lead.

Heavygold4me · Sep 23, 2023

cudamark said:
I sell all my lead except for some dive weights. I have a local buyer that pays $1 lb. for it. Good fishing weights can go for even more if you're willing to spend the time sorting and selling them in smaller quantities.

I save all the lead I find at the beach. My local scrap yard offered me 5 cents a pound, needless to say I still have my lead.

CjG3 · Sep 23, 2023

Dave johnson said:
I save all the lead I find at the beach. My local scrap yard offered me 5 cents a pound, needless to say I still have my lead.

Yeah it’s a lot of work. I save all my scraps. Haven’t done anything with it yet, including sorting it out.

CjG3 · Sep 23, 2023

cudamark said:
I sell all my lead except for some dive weights. I have a local buyer that pays $1 lb. for it. Good fishing weights can go for even more if you're willing to spend the time sorting and selling them in smaller quantities.

One dollar a Lb. sounds like a great deal for lead! I have a bunch of scrap metal that I have just left since I started detecting 5 years ago. I guess I better start sorting and get rid of it (scrap) before the wife puts it in the trash can.

TORRERO · Sep 23, 2023

My wife would shoot me if I kept all my scrap garbage metal ha ha ha

cudamark · Sep 24, 2023

TORRERO said:
My wife would shoot me if I kept all my scrap garage metal ha ha ha

If you take her out to a nice dinner with the proceeds, she might change her mind! :laughing7:

TORRERO · Sep 24, 2023

cudamark said:
If you take her out to a nice dinner with the proceeds, she might change her mind!

What can I get for $0.75 ?
Help me out here guys ha ha ha

pepperj · Sep 24, 2023

Dave johnson said:
I save all the lead I find at the beach. My local scrap yard offered me 5 cents a pound, needless to say I still have my lead.

Time to go to an honest scrap yard.

pepperj · Sep 24, 2023

Dave johnson said:
I save all the lead I find at the beach. My local scrap yard offered me 5 cents a pound, needless to say I still have my lead.

This is from your area.

TORRERO · Sep 25, 2023

pepperj said:
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This is from your area.

Is that 0.01 cents a pound ? wow that sucks

cudamark · Sep 25, 2023

Put an ad on Craig's List or similar. There are guys out there that make custom fishing weights and bullets that will pay more than most scrap yards.

CjG3 · Oct 2, 2023

cudamark said:
Put an ad on Craig's List or similar. There are guys out there that make custom fishing weights and bullets that will pay more than most scrap yards.

Now there’s an idea! I’ll post it this weekend on CL. Thank you!

dougachim · Oct 3, 2023

CjG3 said:
I dug this up a couple weeks ago. It was too heavy to carry around with me so I stuck it in the truck of the car (and forgot about it)
What does one do with a five pound lead ingot?

make bullets.

pepperj · Oct 3, 2023

TORRERO said:
Is that 0.01 cents a pound ? wow that sucks

Could be for the paste weights that are being used on the rims today.
Also the rim lead weights have the steel retainer clip.
So that makes them irony lead which lowers the price.
Yes the scrap yards have an advantage over the seller as it takes another process to melt and recovery the lead.

TORRERO · Oct 3, 2023

pepperj said:
Could be for the paste weights that are being used on the rims today.
Also the rim lead weights have the steel retainer clip.
So that makes them irony lead which lowers the price.
Yes the scrap yards have an advantage over the seller as it takes another process to melt and recovery the lead.

Who the hell would save and sell lead for a penny ? Oh wait... there are guys here... hahaha
Hell for that I would leave it where I found it, knowing some other sap was going to come along and dig it up.... ha ha ha

Georgivs · Oct 3, 2023

I've made all my own dive weights out of the lead I've found. Now I'm working on a set for my brother

pepperj · Oct 3, 2023

TORRERO said:
Who the hell would save and sell lead for a penny ? Oh wait... there are guys here... hahaha
Hell for that I would leave it where I found it, knowing some other sap was going to come along and dig it up.... ha ha ha

A famous line in history:
"A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned"
Coined by Benjamin Franklin

I worked on pennies for nearly a decade-and when one deals in millions of them yearly they add up to something.
Was I totally daft in the penny or two per pound way of thinking?
Retired before my 48th year

Somebody said early in my scrap days-Jim you can deal with little weight and a large margin-or deal in lots of weight and a low margin.

tamrock · Oct 3, 2023

That lead was probably mined in Missouri by the American Smelting and Refining Company. ASARCO had a silver, lead, zinc, gold mine in Leadville, Colorado for many years and was a very active customer of mine in the 1990s. They had also lead mines in Missouri and copper mines in Arizona https://www.theirminesourstories.org/post/asarco-grupo-mexico-chronology