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    Sell online or have smelted?

    I presently have 3 lbs of nice gold computer pins (military type color gold), that i am unsure whether its more profitable to sell online as opposed to having a local guy smelt it for a percentage. I had a pound of mixed (lots of silver ends) that i had smelted down into a 352 gram bar and had tested and here is the break down:

    nickle - 0.8543
    copper - 92.7253
    zinc - 5.1407
    silver - 0.637
    gold - 0.6327


    This means I would have a total of 2.26g of gold in that bar. How much of a difference is there between good gold and bad gold plating?

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    the big difference is making that gold pure to sell and that's were your cost is going to be so selling on ebay might be good for you but even better would be to save until you have 100lbs or so to start on the road to refining but there are tons of threads on here about this. alot of factors involved here to go over so research is key to your answers.

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    might also be a question for GRF as well, especially for the refining part, but you'll likely get better ebay answers here(in time)
    I'd suggest not rushing into any decision until you've researched and refined all answers/possibilities

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    Please don't pay someone to Melt your pins into a mass of metals, you're not only lowing the value, but losing money by paying him to torch them for you.

    You're better off selling them on ebay. If you're interested in getting the gold back, then check out the gold refining forum for a refiner that works on percentage.
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    Yes don't melt its hard to say what you have.

    Also the silver pins are junk unless you have hundreds of pounds of them.



    The value of gold to silver right now is 63.5/1 and silver weighs less then gold so the plating weighs less too.

    Also military pins are deceptive too. I have had pins range from .8g pound to 3.75g pound so its hard to tell from a blob but you can get a good indication from looking at them.

    Eric
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    http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/scrap...-cap-more.html

    http://recycletantalumcapacitors.com/

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    eBay baby



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