copper price per pound r.i.
The historical low for this period was roughly $2.06 per pound, while the historical high was about $2.67. 1 Year Historical Copper Prices (2016) During 2016, the price of copper remained almost entirely in the range of $2.00 to $2.30 per pound. Only once did it dip below $2.00, bottoming out at $1.98 for a short period in January 2016. The record high came towards the end of the year, where the maximum copper price landed at around $2.67 in mid-November 2016.