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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2409421, member: 59677&quot;]Sure, because if you WERE going to refine it...</p><p><br /></p><p>90% refines nicely to 90% to sell back to the people making planchets for the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>.999 refines nicely to .999 to sell back to the bullion people. This already happens - the big refiners melt everything they buy so they can bring it back to standard for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>But refining anything else to .999 for resale takes work (work = time &amp; money).</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting thought: If the mint carries through with it&#039;s authority under the new law and starts making everything it can as .999 (vs. 90% for the commems), then there&#039;s no market for refining 90%. Which is the (almost) circular argument the mint made that there are more supplies for .999 than .900[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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