BabyHerc Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 Just wondering if anyone can tell me the weight of one Canadian nickel, and the weight of the giant nickel in Sudbury... just curious!
Lostchild Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 Canadian nickel s 3.95g and the Big Nickel is 3800lbs. What did i win?
kemper Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 So when we read that the giant nickle from sudbury has been stolen... by the way, for scrap that big nickle is worth about $73 000, nickle is on the rise, so if you wait a few days you might get more out of it. lol.
Roy Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 I was reading about the weight of that nickel and got sidetracked. Did you know that cucumbers grown in the Sudbury area are nickel tolerant? Guess I'll go to bed now....I've learned enough already....
pikehunter Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) the Big Nickel is 3800lbs Can you imagine having a pocketful of those! Edited January 26, 2007 by pikehunter
Clampet Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 I don't beleive the Big Nickel in Sudbury is made of nickel, but of some cheaper metal.
Guest Trophymuskie Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 I don't beleive the Big Nickel in Sudbury is made of nickel, but of some cheaper metal. Isn't nickle cheep metal? I mean it can't be worth more thne 5 cents for it's 3.96 grams or 1.26 cents per gram or $5.73 a pound.
Clampet Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 I worked for INCO underground at the 2200 level in Coppercliff, not far from the Big Nickel in the seventies.
Kirk Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) The real money is in the copper in electrical wires... Edited January 26, 2007 by Kirk
Roy Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 The real money is in the copper in electrical wires... So's untimely demise.
walleyejigger Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 The nickel was originally proposed by Sudbury businessman Ted Szilva in the early 1960s as a project to mark the upcoming Canadian centennial. The Canadian centennial committee rejected the proposal, but Szilva continued to develop the idea as a private project. In cooperation with local artist Bruno Cavallo, Szilva developed a monument consisting of two vertical columns and several angled iron pieces framing an inside layer of metal skin, a middle layer of plywood and an outer layer of stainless steel sheet metal
Kirk Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 Thins the herd Roy...Natural selection. Couldn't believe the stories about copper thieves getting the shock of their lives. I don't know about nickels, but with rising copper values, pennies made in certain years (in the 1990's I think) are/were worth more than penny (about 1.4)
kemper Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 The science teacher was telling me something about pennies not being made of 100% copper anymore. We did some experiment that involved putting a slice in the penny and dropping it in a solution, when it was all over the penny was hollow because the metal in the middle reacted with the solution but the copper on the outside didnt.
Roy Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 Kemper, that's because Canadian pennies are now made of about 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper. Pre 1983 they were made mostly of copper.
tonyb Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 Isn't it a federal offense to destroy currency? Tony
Kirk Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) Yes it is Tony. Thats why the original scheme posted in the newspapers was to smelt canadian coins in the US or US coins in Canada under the presumption that Canadian law protects Canadian coins so US coins were 'open season' in Canada and vice versa. And, Roy, I might be mistaken but I think the Canadian pennies over 0.01 were as late as the mid to late 90's Edited January 26, 2007 by Kirk
glirw Posted January 26, 2007 Report Posted January 26, 2007 Did you know it costs more than a penny to produce a penny ?
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