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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2409447, member: 27832&quot;]I&#039;m too lazy to try to look up numbers now, but I have to imagine that the Mint&#039;s demand for 90% is a <i>tiny</i> fraction of the total demand for silver, and probably not a very big fraction of the 90% going off to the melting pots.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s quite easy to get .999 out of 90% silver/10% copper, but it&#039;s a lot harder to get it out of the war-nickel composition, and also harder to get it out of sterling (because that other 7.5% of sterling can include all <i>kinds</i> of stuff).</p><p><br /></p><p>If only for quality control, I&#039;d expect that all the 90% coming into the pots gets refined back to .999 and then reformulated to 90%. But I don&#039;t even know who&#039;s supplying 90% to the Mint, so I certainly haven&#039;t actually asked them about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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