Copper mining (57 miners and 80,600lbs)

[mtalbot_ca]

57 miners and 80,400 lbs

[thripp]

You can take my $2000 / wk off the list, I am quitting, my last week was last week. Am having too many problems dumping the zinc and halves are yielding better.

[mtalbot_ca]

I have to do the same but for a different reason....no more pennies in Canada.

[Frank t]

my 25 dollars a week has dropped to about 5 due to lack of funding

i shall sort on and pick up whatever i can when i can

kinda feels like im letting the copper gods down so..

ill let u know ( for the thread )when i pick the pace back up

[uthminsta]

My personal 2013 total, including today's pickup, is $1,631. That comes to an average of $25.48 per day or $178.39 per week. So I think I'm staying ahead of what I said earlier, which I believe was $150/wk.

[mtalbot_ca]

You are right, and thanks to you we are at 80,600lbs...

[OtusLotus]

Might as well at to the hoard of people!

currently mining about $50/week.
28%
hand sorter

[cwgii]

11 years of forgotten memories

[Silver4face]

Excluding the occasional week off, I am sorting 20-30 dollars a week (40-60 rolls)

18 percent
Hand sorted

P S. I also sort nickels and half dollars. Once in a blue moon I will even sort a few rolls of quarters. But that is very infrequent. Moving forward, I expect pennies to be the main player over the next few years. After that who knows.

[TXSTARFIRE]

Neat old thread that I have never seen before (or forgotten about). Its interesting to see how the percentages have changed.

[68Camaro]

I don't know what his total was, but Adam via Portland Mint regularly shipped out semi trailers of copper cents to large customers; his operation dwarfed the entire RC by many multiples.

[TXSTARFIRE]

Has that come to an end or is this still going on?

[Recyclersteve]

I thought we were using a different thread where a new posting is made for copper found each month.

[Silver4face]

I thought we were using a different thread where a new posting is made for copper found each month.

We are, but somehow this got reopened.
I continue to post in the right thread, but I don't mind commenting in other threads as well.

[68Camaro]

I thought we were using a different thread where a new posting is made for copper found each month.

We are, but somehow this got reopened.
I continue to post in the right thread, but I don't mind commenting in other threads as well.

If you'll look at the OP, you'll see that this thread had an entirely different purpose than the daily, weekly reporting details thread. This one asked those who were pulling copper coin to estimate their average periodic yield in order to estimate how much was being pulled from circulation by RC members.

[Silver4face]

68Camaro, you are 100 percent correct, but I have seen many threads veer off course, not just this one. I have written the number of copper cents per year (not counting wheats or 82's. I will translate to pounds and post in the near future.