A salvage dealer who received and sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of fraudulently acquired copper wire for nine years said he believed the wire was legitimate.

As new secondary copper smelting and refining capacity ramps up in the U.S., more transparency will be required of scrap suppliers, according to two panelists at the Recycled Materials Association ...

While copper can fetch more than $5 a ... kit and creating a statewide database to track the sale and recycling of catalytic converters at scrap yards.

Rag pickers bring what they have salvaged for sale, as do people who live in the ... what it is until we break it open." Since wiring, copper scrap and electrical parts are the most expensive ...

(APSO) - Two men were arrested and one is wanted following an investigation into the theft and illegal sale of a ...

State law specifies that scrap metal dealers must make ... the man he would get half the money from the sale. The officer was provided with copper wire from the department’s property room ...

The bill of sale made it look like he already purchased ... The wiring is widely used. “Stolen copper is valuable as scrap because the metal is used for so many items—from fiber optics to ...

Derbyshire police are appealing to the public for help in identifying two men who were captured on CCTV stealing a copper piping and scrap metal from a building site. The incident took place at a ...

COIMBATORE: Bringing cheer to farmers who have been for long been troubled by series of copper wire theft, the Coimbatore rural police for the first time managed to recover stolen wire from scrap ...

Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.

When I found a milk crate full of used large scale items, including a worn LGB Stainz at a garage sale ... aluminum and ...