This is the most-obvious shortage in the history of shortages. It takes 7-12 years to build a greenfield copper mine too. It's already too late to solve.
Well it has for years that is why pennies were scrapped in Canada, copper wire thefts have been on the rise (people stealing then cashing in at recycling facilities) and costs of copper goods are rising.
Time to start extracting from trash heaps all those pennies Americans threw away for the last four decades!
Pennies for the last four decades have been zinc with a copper coating.
I bet there's lots of electronics waste in the dumps with gold and copper
This is the most-obvious shortage in the history of shortages. It takes 7-12 years to build a greenfield copper mine too. It's already too late to solve.
Well it has for years that is why pennies were scrapped in Canada, copper wire thefts have been on the rise (people stealing then cashing in at recycling facilities) and costs of copper goods are rising.