Scrap Metal Market Update: Navigating a Defensive Market in 2025
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Scrap metal prices are under pressure in 2025. Here's what sellers need to know about gold, copper, aluminum, and ferrous scrap trends right now.
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Scrap metal prices are under pressure in 2025. Here's what sellers need to know about gold, copper, aluminum, and ferrous scrap trends right now.
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Metals are broadly down over the past 30 days — here's what scrap sellers need to know to protect margins and move inventory smart in today's risk-off market.
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Prices as of July 02, 2026 at 07:31 AM CDT. Market screen levels only — not yard pay prices. Actual buy prices at the scale will differ based on grade, moisture, contamination, and freight. The scrolling ticker at the top of this page shows live prices and may differ from the snapshot below. 🟢 Market Mood: BULLISH5 of 8 metals higher (Gold, Silver & 3 others); 2 lower (Copper, Aluminum). Jump to:Gold — $4,064/oz ▲ Silver — $61.54/oz ▲ PGMs — Rh ▲ $7,900 · Pt ▲ $1,599 · Pd ▲ $1,222 Copper —...
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Scrap metal prices are down 30 days but showing stabilization signals — here's what sellers should know before making inventory decisions.
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Precious and base metals are down 10–21% over 30 days, but stabilization signals are emerging. Here's how scrap sellers should respond right now.
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Prices as of June 30, 2026 at 07:31 AM CDT. Market screen levels only — not yard pay prices. Actual buy prices at the scale will differ based on grade, moisture, contamination, and freight. The scrolling ticker at the top of this page shows live prices and may differ from the snapshot below. 🟡 Market Mood: MIXED4 of 8 metals higher (Silver, Palladium & 2 others); 2 lower (Gold, Platinum). Jump to:Gold — $4,000/oz ▼ Silver — $58.33/oz ▲ PGMs — Rh ▸ $7,750 · Pt ▼ $1,570 · Pd ▲ $1,209 Copper ...
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Precious and base metals are correcting sharply. Here's what falling gold, silver, and PGM prices mean for scrap sellers and how to protect your margins.
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Prices as of June 29, 2026 at 07:31 AM CDT. Market screen levels only — not yard pay prices. Actual buy prices at the scale will differ based on grade, moisture, contamination, and freight. The scrolling ticker at the top of this page shows live prices and may differ from the snapshot below. 🔴 Market Mood: BEARISH1 of 8 metals higher (Palladium); 5 lower (Gold, Silver & 3 others). Jump to:Gold — $4,035/oz ▼ Silver — $58.02/oz ▼ PGMs — Rh ▸ $7,750 · Pt ▼ $1,579 · Pd ▲ $1,190 Copper — $6.13/...
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Week Ending June 28, 2026: Scrap Metal Market Recap for U.S. Yards and Buyers If you ran a yard this week, you felt it. Base metals softened slightly heading into the weekend. Ferrous benchmarks stayed murky. And a billion-dollar steel expansion story out of Arkansas reminded everyone that...
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# How a South Florida Recycler Stopped Leaving Money on the Table One buyer. One phone call. One price. For years, that was the entire sales process for Marco's mid-size recycling operation outside Miami. It wasn't broken — or so he thought. Then he listed his first load on a scrap metal auction...
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