What do you all say about making ingots?

While building my forge for metal casting I had the epiphany (or brain fart) of taking my non ferrous metals and making them into ingots.

Less space, easy handling and storage, quick and easy weigh outs, and getting #1 price for my #2 copper.

I have advanced this idea to a couple of people in the scrapping business and they told me it was not a good idea.

"The yard wont take the ingots."

"No way of knowing what the ingot is cast out of, so you will get the lower price, if they even take them."


I can not be the first person to come up with this idea, so was wondering if anyone on this forum had tried it before.