How much money could I get from an old prego sauce jar filled with silver contacts?

I just started doing the silver contact thing after seeing Moose Scrapper from you tube's video where he had a little plastic vial of silver, said something about the copper "should come right off if you give it a bath in hot hydrochloric". I dont want to mess around with any of these chemicals, I want to find a place where I can take the contacts when I finally get my jar filled and melt it down. I got some of my roughly 30-40(as of now) contacts from light switches, some from brass connectors of copper wire, some from inside this old electrical junction box, and some from relays switches off low-grade boards. Including the very thin ones on those tiny black switches where you take your needle nose and rip off the top and tip the board over and get it to drop in the palm of your hand. Yes I know allot of this stuff is plated, burned off, or both, but I dont care because if it even has the smallest amount of silver on it I will take it. I am hoping to get it melted down and have a nice small brick of silver, could care less about the brass and copper, but I will take it and throw it in my yellow and number 1 piles respectivly. I want to know how I should go about this because this, along with those tantulum capacitors, I am hoping to make a small little fortune off of. Thanks in advance for any help and good luck scrapping!

i think it would depend if the sauce was the kind with or with out mushrooms

im just kidding....i save them also..they seem to sale great on ebay...at least that is my plan...if im not mistaken we have someone here that toll refines silver contacts.... do a search for who buys tantalum capacitors and it should bring him up....i believe his tag is etack...

glad your playing it smart not just trying it yourself as for the jar it will take alot more like 1000lbs to make it worth while ref it but yes ebay will be good for you on a smaller amount or contact people in the buyers section

Price of 1 oz. silver = approx. $19.80 (spot price, 4/3/14)

Most electrical contacts are made from silver alloys, so total silver content could be just 30%, for example. If you have used switches or other components that you can resell, you'll get your $20 a lot faster.