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Not so precious metal---Copper=$3.90 per pound-- What is the price of a gram of copper?

percybpercyb Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭✭
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Copper is trading at roughly $3.90 a pound. That's about 25 cents an ounce or 25 cents per 31.1 grams per ounce How much do copper pennies weigh? Is it 3 grams?
How much is a gram worth?

Any math Whizzes around?
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  • bestmrbestmr Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭
    Metal prices is easier than all that silly math. image
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  • TheTalkingWalnutTheTalkingWalnut Posts: 444
    Gotta be pre 1982 or thereabouts I believe
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1 lb = 16 oz
    16 Oz x 28.35 G/ Oz= 453 g/ Lb
    3.90 / 453 = .86c / G
    Tempus fugit.
  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,789 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Total Face Value: $100
    Coin Type: 1909-1982 Lincoln Copper Cent
    Copper Price: $3.9251 / pound

    Zinc Price: $1.1378 / pound

    Answer:
    Total melt value is $259.56.

    Wow. Maybe I'll re-think saving my pre 82 lincolns. I always save my change but have not bothered
    sorting the coppers out.

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  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Metal prices is easier than all that silly math. image >>



    Thanks. That makes it easier for me. Good thing I can read. Next year I learn to add and subtract. image
    "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." PBShelley
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