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Copper mining (57 miners and 80,600lbs)

Postby mtalbot_ca » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:29 pm

I would be interested to know how much copper pounds do the members of this fine mining community extract from circulation each year. I propose that through this thread we each indicate the following:

1. FV sorted by period (average an amount by week or month)
2. Indicate average % of CU
3. Machine or hand sorted

I'll compile the results as often as I can until no more members indicate their mining activities.

For me:

1. 25FV per week
2. 47%
3. Hand sorted
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Re: Copper mining

Postby SilverDragon72 » Sun Oct 28, 2012 4:35 pm

For me, my handsorting totals are about 100 pounds or a little more. I do manage to pick up small amounts of Canadian coppers and nickels from my LCS from time to time.
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Re: Copper mining

Postby mtalbot_ca » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:19 pm

So tonight's total:

2 members
404 lbs per year mined (average)

Let's have a good sample going. See you next week.
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Re: Copper mining

Postby doug » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:24 pm

1) 500/week
2)35%
3)Ryedale
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Re: Copper mining

Postby rsk1963 » Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:50 pm

I like this, great idea!

1. 500 /month
2. 30 %
3. Ryedale
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Re: Copper mining

Postby CardsNCoins » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:19 am

$75 per week
30%
Ryedale
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Re: Copper mining (up to 6,800 lbs per year)

Postby mtalbot_ca » Mon Oct 29, 2012 4:15 pm

All added so far. 5 hoarders for over 6,800lbs per year of copper.
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Re: Copper mining (up to 6,800 lbs per year)

Postby RichardPenny43 » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:06 pm

$150/week
28%
Ryedale
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Re: Copper mining (up to 6,800 lbs per year)

Postby duane1966 » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:16 pm

$100 per week
25 %
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Re: Copper mining (up to 6,800 lbs per year)

Postby mbailey1234 » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:27 pm

$100 per week
28%
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Re: Copper mining (up to 6,800 lbs per year)

Postby Doctor Steuss » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:49 pm

$25/wk
10%
Handsort
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Re: Copper mining (up to 6,800 lbs per year)

Postby uthminsta » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:20 pm

It's hard to put a set amount on my sorting. But I do a MINIMUM of $100 per week. Some weeks it's much more; if a bank calls, I go. Know what I mean? :)

Let's say $150/week average.
I get about 23% copper, I guess.
And that's a Ryedale accomplishment, not just my own.
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Re: Copper mining (up to 6,800 lbs per year)

Postby mtalbot_ca » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:40 pm

10 miners and 11.000 lbs of copper per year.
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Re: Copper mining (up to 11,000 lbs per year)

Postby NHsorter » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:53 pm

$150+ per week. What uthminsta said.
Avg of about 28%
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Re: Copper mining (up to 11,000 lbs per year)

Postby 68Camaro » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:02 pm

$125-ish per week, average.
22%
Ryedale
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Re: Copper mining (up to 11,000 lbs per year)

Postby Mr Paradise » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:27 pm

$50 a week
25%
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Re: Copper mining (up to 11,000 lbs per year)

Postby pennyguy » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:39 pm

$1200 month
30 % copper
I have three Ryedales
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Re: Copper mining (up to 14,700 lbs per year)

Postby mtalbot_ca » Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:57 pm

So far from 14 miners, we have over 14,700lbs of copper removed from circulation eah year. Keep it coming.....
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Re: Copper mining (up to 14,700 lbs per year)

Postby ScrapMetal » Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:24 pm

$1500 per month on average
28%
Machine sorted
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Re: Copper mining (up to 14,700 lbs per year)

Postby jacer333 » Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:54 am

$350 each week (I usually just sort whatever is needed to pull $100 of copper per week)
29%
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Re: Copper mining (up to 14,700 lbs per year)

Postby creshka46 » Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:40 pm

I'm averaging about $115/month
22%
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Re: Copper mining (up to 14,700 lbs per year)

Postby m83striker » Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:18 pm

$300.00 per month
30% average
Ryedale

Of that 30% about 7% is Canadian, not that it matters, just something I keep track of separately.
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Re: Copper mining (up to 14,700 lbs per year)

Postby shinnosuke » Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:25 pm

$1000/month
12% (Looks like San Antonio is not much better than Las Vegas.)
Ryedale

I'm flabbergasted by mtalbot's 47% ratio. JUST SORT MORE!
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Re: Copper mining (up to 14,700 lbs per year)

Postby natsb88 » Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:40 pm

shinnosuke wrote:I'm flabbergasted by mtalbot's 47% ratio. JUST SORT MORE!

Canada made coppers up through 1996, lots more copper in circulation up there.
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Re: Copper mining (up to 14,700 lbs per year)

Postby shinnosuke » Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:24 pm

natsb88 wrote:
shinnosuke wrote:I'm flabbergasted by mtalbot's 47% ratio. JUST SORT MORE!

Canada made coppers up through 1996, lots more copper in circulation up there.


Then I'm definitely living on the wrong side of the continent.
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