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Got A Tricky One - Industrial Silver Ingots

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How much does each one weigh?
Are they uniform in weight?


Not sure. Didn't bother weighing individual ones or counting them.

There were about 3-4 one-off pieces of different sizes, but otherwise they all looked the same. Didn't look like precision cuts though, like a coin or the like, as if they are blanks.
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Just a hunch here, but the remaining metal may be Zinc. That could explain the color. It sounds like some type of brazing alloy. If the remaining five percent is Zinc, the refining cost likely would consume most of the Silver value. You could try a specific gravity test for several samples and compare the results to a calculated range for expected values if the remainder is Zinc, but any variances in the composition and how the alloy could have been mixed make this a bit iffy.
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Yeah could be.

My father worked in a manufacturing plant that made electrical transformers - the kind you see up on poles and the green boxes in neighborhoods. Of course they used all kinds of metals for their manufacturing I'm sure. Not certain if he got these from there or not. (the place is long since gone, a NAFTA casualty)

Anyhow - going to look around at other potential places some and see. May end up having to just hold onto these for a while. Since it's obvious I won't get much $ for them now, not really a high priority. Heck maybe I'll make some wall art or a table placemat out of them or something.

Edit: actually - I still haven't tried the APMEX avenue yet - will be looking into that.
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