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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 840493, member: 16510"]The accounting and guarding, handling were most liklely tens times that amount maybe twenty times to a hundred times.To follow up a bit we do see silver stock on occsion come into the market locally. I've never seen the wire but once a guy brought in some silver sheets about 4 or 5 inches wide and a eighth inch thick, two or three feet long. No way to tell where they were from or what they were used for. I don't think they were ever used. The silver content was above 95%.He said he got it at a yard sale in the bottom of a box markes tools.He paid $25 for it and had about 80 to 100 oz. I ask him how he knew it was silver and he said by how heavy it was that nothing else other than plantium would be that heavy. Of course you could look and see how white and lusterful it was right off. He scored a home run on that stuff.It had to be for some kind of industrial use though as it was holed and scored here and there for some type of application. I wonder how much of West Points silver is still in little old mens homes down in Oak Ridge right now or for that matter in scrap heaps around the plants? You know a little scrap piece now and then could add up - I would like to make that bet in favor of "it is and a not just a little" but I don't know a darn thing really about it and have never seen wire yet.[/QUOTE]