Have an ongoing art project in California in which we need metal shavings in the following metals: copper, brass, silver, gold. Will pay per pound. Please contact me if you have any on hand or know where we can get some.
Christan snipped-for-privacy@cox.net
I have a lot that look like brass. We had a guy at the scrap yard going when we dumped them(3000 lb) on the light iron scrap pile. " ya mean that those brass chips are worth a lot more than light iron? " We finally told him that they were chrome iron.
John
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If you mean turnings -- chips -- swarf -- then I think that the odds are vastly against you finding them in gold or silver. Both are sufficiently expensive so:
1) Most things made from them are cast to near shape, with only minimal machining being done to them afterwards. (A wax master may be turned on a small lathe, and used in lost-wax castings, but not the metal itself. 2) All possible leftovers -- cut off sprues, filing dust, and even possible turnings, are re-melted and used for the next project. 3) You should expect to pay close to as much as you would for metal of equal purity in an ingot.As for brass -- that should be easy to find.
Copper is a pain to turn, so you are less likely to find that in most hobby shops (and you are mostly reaching the hobby metalworkers in this newsgroup).
If you *really* want gold and silver turnings, you should expect to buy your metal in ingot form, and turn it yourself, because any jeweler would be instantly re-melting whatever he produced, before it blew away as dust.
Good Luck, DoN.
Heh!
In my years of precious metals refining, I can't tell you the number of carpets that were refined for values. They need not have even been in the work area, just in the traffic areas of a shop. Carpet from behind the counters of a store that had a bench in the back room were quite valuable. They act as a collector for fine gold particles, which settle to the bottom and won't vacuum up.
Gold and silver chips by the pound? Assuming gold @ $645/ounce (troy), and 14K, in theory, a pound of chips (7000 grains, which is an avoirdupois ounce) would be worth $5,486 in gold, plus the value of the small amount of silver contained within.
Hope this person has a strong financial backing.
Harold
When you do, let me know, JR, and I'll come take that nasty stuff off your hands to save you a trip to the transfer station. :-)
Harold
Sigh! A correction is in order. 7,000 grains is an avoirdupois pound, not ounce.
Harold
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