Now obviously, a copper scrap refiner does not pay the full value of the copper contained within scrap.

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The company claims to have 75 million miles of copper cable which people are always trying to steal for the copper scrap value.

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For pretty much the minimum international order of copper containing scrap is the short container, or 20 tonnes of material.

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Basically, marriage is a market, like steel scrap or copper.

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An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.

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He'd get off the train at the city dumps, eat mulligan stew with the hoboes and forage for copper, brass and iron to sell as scrap.

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Colin Drane recalls a crime spree that unfolded near his home in Baltimore a few years ago just as scrap metal prices were on the rise: Copper downspouts were disappearing.

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That is, people actually digging up copper wire from the ground, stealing it, and selling it for scrap.

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