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1 posted on 02/28/2023 12:31:49 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

There was a thread here a long time ago about people breaking into active electric transformers to steal the copper, usually with disastrous results.


2 posted on 02/28/2023 12:44:49 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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I know of at least three major copper/zinc deposits in the United States which have never been developed, strictly for political reasons.


5 posted on 02/28/2023 12:52:17 PM PST by marktwain
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Pinochet would know how to ensure the supply of essential commodities, unlike the idiot woke rulers currently in South America.


7 posted on 02/28/2023 12:55:50 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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Are we gonna grow new copper in 2030?


8 posted on 02/28/2023 12:56:46 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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It may be time to buy Southern Copper (SCCO) again.


9 posted on 02/28/2023 12:58:22 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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If we had not debased our currency there would be plenty of already refined copper floating around.


10 posted on 02/28/2023 12:59:52 PM PST by algore
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Never speculate in copper. It is a tightly controlled market, and they do not want outsiders to make as much as one red cent from it.

An anecdote is whatever happened to the vast amount of copper cable that became obsolete with fiber optic cable replacing it. They didn’t just abandon it underground, but pulled it out and spooled it up. And then, it vanished.

At the time it was speculated that there was enough recovered copper to build half a dozen pure copper aircraft carriers. But the market price of copper didn’t fluctuate at all.


12 posted on 02/28/2023 1:01:29 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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I think we are entering a commodities supercycle where the price of all metals will be heading up.


14 posted on 02/28/2023 1:09:28 PM PST by jimwatx
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Hmm. Is the solution to this problem less freedom? Just asking.


18 posted on 02/28/2023 1:15:29 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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That’s a reminder to buy copper coins. Precious metals web sites are selling it for around $1.50-$1.60 oz. Right now. I’m not talking pennies, but newly minted coins and bars of .999 pure copper.

https://www.jmbullion.com/copper/copper-bars/

Just one example…


21 posted on 02/28/2023 1:20:18 PM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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Time for Musk to get serious about asteroid mining


22 posted on 02/28/2023 1:21:15 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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I remember the 1970s, when Aluminum was beginning to replace copper, till there were problems with expansion rates between copper and aluminum. Aluminum was abandoned.


23 posted on 02/28/2023 1:24:04 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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Libtards can’t get enough open pit miming

They should relocate to an asteroid and leave us alone


24 posted on 02/28/2023 1:25:11 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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Time to go scraping. Start at EV Charging stations.


26 posted on 02/28/2023 1:44:12 PM PST by wetgundog
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Well, I guess I’d better stock up on Berry’s Bullets ... again.


30 posted on 02/28/2023 2:05:26 PM PST by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: Red Badger

Cool..wait till 2030 and we’re good.

I got a shxtload of pennies though!!


31 posted on 02/28/2023 2:18:11 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Red Badger

train wrecks?
Copper mines?

...seems we read about this somewhere...


32 posted on 02/28/2023 2:29:04 PM PST by SheepWhisperer ("For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding")
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precious metals in crisis?

Copper, lead, and brass.


35 posted on 02/28/2023 3:02:18 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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CNBC?

Not good weather vane.

CNN es Muy Estúpido


36 posted on 02/28/2023 3:05:13 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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So in 2030 is new copper going to come here from another planet?


38 posted on 02/28/2023 3:40:22 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Democrat politicians and voters are dangerous psychopaths. They confirm it everyday.)
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