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Metal prices are the prices of metal as a commodity that are traded in bulk at a predefined purity or grade. Metal can be split into three major categories, precious metals, industrial metals and other metals. Precious metals and industrial metals are priced by trading of those metals on commodities exchanges. [1]
This is a list of prices of chemical elements. Listed here are mainly average market prices for bulk trade of commodities. Data on elements' abundance in Earth's crust is added for comparison. As of 2020, the most expensive non-synthetic element by both mass and volume is rhodium.
For larger containers, such as the 32-ounce size, there will be fewer per pound. How much do tin cans cost? Tin scrap in the U.S. generally goes for $110 per ton on today's open market.
In the US, scrap prices are reported in a handful of publications, including American Metal Market, based on confirmed sales as well as reference sites such as Scrap Metal Prices and Auctions. Non-US domiciled publications, such as The Steel Index , also report on the US scrap price, which has become increasingly important to global export markets.
There are 72 economic deposits of copper/cobalt and four large mining centers. [3] Taken together, the DRC and Zambian copper belts are the second largest global reserve of copper, about 1/3 the size of the Chilean reserve. [4] The DRC copper belt includes some of the highest-grade copper deposits in the world. In some reserves the grades are ...
Cobalt is found in steel. Uncontrolled disposal of 60 Co in scrap metal is responsible for the radioactivity in some iron products. [15] [16] Circa 1983, construction was finished of 1700 apartments in Taiwan which were built with steel contaminated with cobalt-60. About 10,000 people occupied these buildings during a 9–20 year period.
According to the International Resource Panel's Metal Stocks in Society report, the global per capita stock of copper in use in society is 35–55 kg. Much of this is in more-developed countries (140–300 kg per capita) rather than less-developed countries (30–40 kg per capita). In 2001, a typical automobile contained 20–30 kg of copper. [13]
Cobalt(II) oxide is an inorganic compound that has been described as an olive-green [3] or gray [4] solid. It is used extensively in the ceramics industry as an additive to create blue-colored glazes and enamels , as well as in the chemical industry for producing cobalt(II) salts.