Copper > Gold

Well, to me at least.

I don't come across gold too often, so I don't think about it. However, working in the electrical field, I work with copper a lot. In fact, I started swiping the bits of bare copper wire the day I started work. Then I found out that copper is going for just under 4 dollars a pound.

I have a whole box of copper "scrap" in the back of my car.

Technically I'm not supposed to do this. Either it's trashed, or it's recycled by my employer. But they usually throw out the small strands I'm picking up.

One other guy I work with is doing the same thing, except he's picking up the coated wire as well, which means, if he wants top dollar for it, he'll have to strip/melt it all off to get to the bare copper.

I literally dig through trash and scour the floors for the stuff.

cool a uncle of mine used to work draggin cars away , he used to nick the ones that had been lying down old roads for months and take em to sell for scrap- no one ever noticed. besides who cares- what ur boss dont know won't hurt him right?

the tinkers--err.. "traveller community" here used to steal all the underground copper here, it was really annoying. These days they mistakenly steal the fire optic cables. stupid tinkers...

but hey you're only cleaning up scraps so yay you :)

i was listening to a story on this a while back.

they said that pennies are worth more than 1 cent.

honestly, can't you get fired for this though? yes, it's rubbish, but technically it's still considered the property of the company and if they want you to throw it away, you're not entitled to being a garbage picker.

it's the same way with the government. if something is in the trash and i go and take it home because i consider it discarded, i could loose my job for it. strange, but true.

raverboy