Price of Copper Beads vs Gold, Nickel

Mike,

Did you check to see if the bead making company is owned by Chevron-Texaco?

"Mike McGuire" wrote in message
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Got a little sticker shock in my local fly shop. Copper beads are $3.95 a
pack of 25 while gold and nickel are $2.50. Looking around online it seems
to be a similar deal elsewhere. Now I weighed a package of 2.3 mm beads
which came out to about 1 gram or 0.0022 lbs. Now on the London metal
exchange http://www.metalprices.com/FreeSite/metals/cu/cu.asp copper was
$3.04/lb yesterday so the cost of the copper in the package of beads is
less than 1 cent, so why the disparity in price?

Mike McGuire