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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 1099124, member: 68"]They don't need to be separated and it's far too expensive to do it. </p><p><br /></p><p>They will be used for alloy in making products that require both copper and nickel such as stainless steel. There are no transportion or melting costs either since something has to be used and it may as well be nickels. </p><p><br /></p><p>But people don't have an electric furnace in their backyards cranking out stainless by the ton so there's no need to police or prosecute sine no one's going to do it. Pennies are another matter and there are small scale melters. If they get caught then they're up the creek but the government is unlikely to worry about someone making a 80 pound bronze sculpture unless they want to make a case for show; make an example of someone. No one cares about the zinc and they're cheaper than washers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 1099124, member: 68"]They don't need to be separated and it's far too expensive to do it. They will be used for alloy in making products that require both copper and nickel such as stainless steel. There are no transportion or melting costs either since something has to be used and it may as well be nickels. But people don't have an electric furnace in their backyards cranking out stainless by the ton so there's no need to police or prosecute sine no one's going to do it. Pennies are another matter and there are small scale melters. If they get caught then they're up the creek but the government is unlikely to worry about someone making a 80 pound bronze sculpture unless they want to make a case for show; make an example of someone. No one cares about the zinc and they're cheaper than washers.[/QUOTE]
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