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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 25743509, member: 68&quot;]Almost all concrete now is poured with steel reinforcement so even a metal detector won&#039;t help find the half dollar.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Almost any contamination of some steels require it to be scrapped or reworked but if all the silver were mixed in it wouldn&#039;t matter.&nbsp; One part per million of silver wouldn&#039;t matter to much of anything.&nbsp; The silver in most ores I believe would come out with the slag anyway.&nbsp; Much of what did get smelted would end up in the monkey below the tapholes.&nbsp; This just really puts it in perspective for me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We tend to take everything for granted but 26,000 tons is almost nothing.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Great Pyramid weighs 24 times as much.&nbsp;&nbsp; The silver is used in thousands of processes and products including some with more silver than iron in them![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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