Are these copper anodes?

I saw this truck a coupla days ago here in Dallas. Couldn't tell if this was copper or not. Looks like it to me. The truck's suspension seems to be stressed from a lot of weight, and the trailer didn't have that arch they usually do when they're deadheading, so the load was definitely heavy.



Wonder what this was worth if it is copper?

My first guess would have been roofing material.

lol, I had to look up what copper ''anode'' is. I thought anode was a conduit, or rather a .....source? for travel through. I didn't realize it was a ''physical'' item. It does sort of look like roofing but, the copper roofing I've seen seemed to have more ''waves/dips'' in it or rather, closer together than those seem.

I may not have used the right word, and it was hard to get a good photo driving down the interstate! LOL

They definitely had a metallic shine to them that doesn't come across in the pics.

I was wondering if they might've been the sheets of copper resulting from electrowinning. There is a company called Encore Wire just a few miles up the road in the direction this truck was headed. They're a pretty sizeable wire company, publicly traded at over $1billion market cap.

I think they are the sheets of copper that has been made from copper scrap.
They dip a thin sheet of copper into a electroplating bath & electoplate the copper onto it, it gets thicker with a bright clean bare copper metal crystal surface structure.


If you want to see this effect found a really easy way. So obvious & complety free.
Glass jar, small bunch inch long thin copper wire, a teaspoon of Copper sulphate & a solar panel off one of those solar garden lights. Some water. Something you want to electroplate onto, I used a old worn silver plated spoon.

As the bubbles come off the electroplation, they rise & the crystals form vertical lines.
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I don't know this for sure. but
When they do that sheet electroplating, thats when they get the rest of gold out of the copper.
What they start off with is recycled domestic copper, pipe & such.
That domestic copper, its come strait from the copper mine & been melted & made into stuff. Its been used & recycled once or twice.

They probably got most of the gold out of it in the first refining at the smelter, but not all of it. Same with some other metals like arsnic.
For the smelter to get this last bit of gold, they'd have to refine it twice, doubling their costs.

But, now they have high purity copper & its suitable of making copper electrical wire, making it worth more.... win win