Statue of liberty

[CMPD213]

How much money would you get if you were to scrap it for all the copper?

[lovbyts]

Why does it matter? It's not going to happen...
No matter how much it wouldnt be enough.

[CMPD213]

I was just curious... I have no reason for asking the questions other than my mind is wondering

[Bojangles69]

Dude you're gonna need a big truck to pull that one off lol.

I have no idea. One would have to first estimate the total weight of copper, and present price of copper per lb.

I just have no clue how much copper they used. An engineer might know..

[lovbyts]

Weight of copper used in Statue - 200000 pounds (100 tons)
Recycled copper is worth up to 90% of the cost of the original copper
Current price is around $2.65 lb + - (http://www.metalprices.com/FreeSite/...p/cu_scrap.asp)
total
$530,000

Not very much, only 1/2 million

[Bojangles69]

ok so about $1.70 x 200000 = $340,000

I was expecting it to be a lot more for some reason. So you could get a house maybe if you chose to scrap the statue and sell her for her parts lmao

[Bojangles69]

and ftr that was some impressive team work

[stack_it]

Nyc scrap copper is going for about $2.65 a lb. Lovbyts calculations are prolly really close

[romo6]

Yea,show up at the scrap metal place with the whole statue.That would be awesome.

[CMPD213]

Thanks guys.. I thought it would be more than that, surprising.

[Flagg]

Zut alors!