06/16/2026
SCRAP REPORT — Week of 6/16/26
Ada, OK • brought to you by the boys at ScrapWorks
Here’s where the metal sits this week, straight off the floor.
Copper’s still climbing. COMEX copper closed around $6.51 a pound  and the scrap grades kept their momentum right on through last week. Everybody’s praying for that $7 handle  — but a smart man sells strong and keeps the cash moving instead of waiting on a number that may not come. Bright and bare is your money maker. Strip your wire if you’ve got the time.
Aluminum is the sleeper play. This is the quiet story nobody’s talking about. Sheet aluminum’s pushing $0.60–$0.75 a pound at a lot of yards  if it’s clean. Sort it. Separate your sheet from your cast and your extrusion. Knock the contamination off it.  The man who brings in a mixed load leaves money in the truck bed. Don’t be that man.
Steel’s holding flat and steady. Mills are running about 81% and U.S. steel production’s up near 9% from a year ago  — demand’s balanced, prices aren’t moving much either direction. Your HMS and your busheling are trading right in the same lanes they’ve been in.  No surprises. Iron’s iron.
Brass crept up too — yellow and red both nudged better than a percent. 
Bottom line: copper’s hot, aluminum rewards the man who does the work, steel’s steady as Oklahoma weather isn’t. Sort clean, sell smart, keep the cash flowing.
Bring it to ScrapWorks. We’ll weigh it honest. 🤝
Data: ScrapMonster, IndexBox, iScrapApp & AISI — wk of 6/16/26.
