🔶Copper price today
Quotation from 10/13/2026
International futures market · converted via PTAX
Copper is quoted at R$ 74.15 per kilogram (US$ 6.7415 per pound) at the close of 10/13/2026. Copper is called "Doctor Copper" because it has a PhD in economics: since it is in everything that is built and electrified, its price anticipates the industrial cycle better than almost any indicator.
Copper price history
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Series of daily closes since 08/08/2016 (2561 quotations), converted to reais using the Central Bank's selling PTAX rate for each trading day.
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Price per quantity
Direct conversions of the quotation from 10/13/2026, to check without a calculator.
| 1 kilogram | R$ 74.15 |
|---|---|
| 100 kilograms | R$ 7,415.00 |
| 1 ton | R$ 74,150.00 |
| 1 pound (0.4536 kg) | R$ 33.63 |
Copper price year by year
Minimum, average, and maximum for each year in reais per kilogram, with the year-end return. The conversion uses the PTAX of each trading day — so the return in reais embeds exchange rate movements, not just the commodity's.
| Year | Minimum | Average | Maximum | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | R$ 29.70 | R$ 69.79 | R$ 80.95 | +9.68% |
| 2025 | R$ 52.74 | R$ 59.34 | R$ 70.95 | +25.10% |
| 2024 | R$ 40.03 | R$ 50.19 | R$ 57.60 | +30.42% |
| 2023 | R$ 38.76 | R$ 42.46 | R$ 48.69 | −7.21% |
| 2022 | R$ 38.52 | R$ 45.46 | R$ 55.96 | −20.12% |
| 2021 | R$ 40.44 | R$ 50.54 | R$ 58.27 | +35.54% |
| 2020 | R$ 23.53 | R$ 31.95 | R$ 41.23 | +60.29% |
| 2019 | R$ 21.35 | R$ 23.65 | R$ 25.77 | +11.16% |
| 2018 | R$ 21.56 | R$ 23.46 | R$ 28.10 | −4.35% |
| 2017 | R$ 17.26 | R$ 19.74 | R$ 23.96 | +34.00% |
| 2016 | R$ 14.41 | R$ 16.54 | R$ 20.51 | +18.39% |
What this price means
This is the quotation for refined copper in the international market, traded in dollars per pound (0.4536 kg), converted here to kilograms and reais. It is the price of pure metal in ingots, in global wholesale.
Copper conducts electricity almost as well as silver and costs a fraction of the price — which is why it is in the wiring of every building, in electric motors, transformers, transmission network cables, and increasingly in electric cars, which carry several times more copper than a combustion-engine car.
This is not the price that scrap yards pay for scrap. The yard buys at a fraction of this benchmark — the material needs to be sorted, cleaned, melted, and refined before becoming an ingot — and the difference between clean, insulated, and mixed copper is large.
What makes the price of copper rise and fall
The country consumes more than half of the world's copper. Stimulus packages, the pace of construction, and investment in China's electrical grid move the global price on the very same day.
Electric cars, transmission grids, data centers, and renewable energy represent new, structural demand. This is the core argument of those projecting a copper deficit in the coming years.
Chile and Peru account for a large share of world production. Strikes, community disputes, water issues, or declining ore grades take supply off the market quickly — and a new mine takes nearly a decade to get off the ground.
Metal exchange warehouses publish inventories daily. A persistent drop in inventories with rising prices is the classic sign of a genuine physical squeeze, not speculation.
Copper is a risk asset priced in dollars: high interest rates make financing inventories more expensive and cool construction; a strong dollar pushes prices down.
How to invest in copper in Brazil
There is no practical way for an individual to buy and store physical copper — it is bulky, cheap per kilogram, and expensive to store. Exposure comes through companies and financial instruments:
The most direct route. Diversified mining companies have results tied to the price of copper; see the ones listed on the stocks page.
Baskets of global mining companies, traded on exchanges. They dilute the risk of a specific mine, but bring country and currency risk.
Traded in London and New York, with margin requirements and expiration dates. This is a tool for industry and professional traders, not long-term investors.
A commodity pays no dividends or interest: the return comes solely from price movement, and it can go years without moving. Therefore, for most investors, it makes more sense to use the quotation as a thermometer — to gauge the momentum of companies and funds that generate cash from it — than to try to guess the direction of the price.
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