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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1613640, member: 27832&quot;]Ugh.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all, nitric acid is expensive and hard to come by. If you do manage to get some for cheap, yes, you can refine silver yourself; if you don&#039;t care about laws or ethics, you can dump your waste NO2 into the air and your waste copper nitrate into the drain, dodging some emission-control expenses that the big refiners incur. (That&#039;s a bit harsh, I guess; a home operation refining a few ounces of silver isn&#039;t going to Destroy The Environment, but it certainly isn&#039;t being very neighborly.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Will your product be .999? Good question. If your technique is <i>very</i> good, and your&#039;e willing to let some silver go unreclaimed, it&#039;s possible. If you&#039;re scraping silver off a copper wire, and then melting it in a baked-potato crucible, I think .999 is a bit of a stretch. Your product will be better than sterling, but probably not .999.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can you sell the product as .999? To a refinery, probably not; they might be willing to analyze it, but they&#039;ll charge you for that work. On eBay? Sure -- for that matter, you could probably sell sterling shot as .999, and rarely get caught at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to try this as an interesting science experiment, go for it! I did it myself when I was a teen (starting with a silver Roosie). I hope you have better ventilation than I did.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to do it so you can get more money out of your sterling, you&#039;re barking up the wrong tree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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