I hit upon about 200 pounds of electric company wire . It is as green as the statue of liberty . it's copper color when you cut into it .
YET it has a thin steel tracer wire fused in center . I have not tested to see if I cut a smidgen of the copper (like the edge of it) to see if nonferrous



It's a very impressive find , That i feel it's not worth selling as copper bearing at .12 to .15 per pound , My query is maybe this is worth melting
as I feel the steel tracer should not melt with copper it should float to surface BUT I might not know the how metals react.