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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7639618, member: 105098&quot;]Yes. I was ballparking but yeah it&#039;s something like that neighborhood.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Chris earlier asked about reclaiming the gold plating. there&#039;s not enough of it to make the price of the chemicals necessary to reclaim the gold plating worthwhile. you&#039;d need to have a lot more of it and sit on the silver until you did. Most will just not count it or value it at all and it goes to waste because the money is worthwhile out of the silver. </p><p><br /></p><p>Density of 0.5 micron gold plating is something like 6.23 mg per square inch. 1 gram of 24k gold can plate 160 square inches of metal to a thickness of 0.5 microns which is the jewelery minimum standard for gold plating in the u.s. if it&#039;s to be sold here. It can be thicker, but that&#039;s the minimum thickness it can be if it&#039;s sold here as &quot;gold plated&quot; jewelery and a good rule of thumb when trying to value gold plated jewelery.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;It&#039;s like 4 cent&#039;s per square inch of 0.5 micron plating roughly, something like that if you got it all out of the reclaimation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had an idea to reclaim gold plating many years ago and looked into it. It can be done, but it&#039;s not cost effective to do it for what you get from it compared to the costs to do it, and it&#039;s dangerous for your health if not done right or the metals in the mix are problems so you&#039;d need the right setting and equipment. You&#039;d need to recover likely at least a half pound of gold in a run in order for it to be worth the costs to do it and the time it takes. Anyways, just saying gold plating doesn&#039;t really have any value as far as reclaiming unless you have a whole lot of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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