Scubacat
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After years of digging I have accumulated some GP items. I got another one today. It was 14K GP ring. In my books they are useless items. I wonder though if anybody found a way to get some dime out of those things.
An Advice on GP
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Aquaman
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GP = gold plumb. Correct?
What books are you reading?
If so your good to go Scubacat
What books are you reading?
If so your good to go Scubacat
Steve
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I pull 18k gp often. I toss them directly into the garbage or into the path of 1 of my competitors. Seeing them digging it up and their expression is priceless to me
Aquaman
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cellrdwellr
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I have sold junkers on the big auction site before. Usually dont sell for much, but there is a limited market for junk jewelry. The question is, after all the pictures, posting the items, shipping, etc... Is it even worth it? I guess that's your call, good luck out there!
I have quite a bag of it... was told by a refiner I would need 5 pounds of it before they would take it from me... so I just save it... someday I'll seed someones beach with it who I don't like after I clean out the good stuff first..
DaviDs
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Good condition, designer ones I throw on swip/swap or eBay!
Junkers I donate, give to lil' kids that ask what I found, or seed for other MDs.
Scubacat
Elite Member
Thanks for your advises. Basically
a) donate to charity yard sale
b) sell at CL site likes
c) drop it on somebody's path (never thought about that one)
All great ideas!
a) donate to charity yard sale
b) sell at CL site likes
c) drop it on somebody's path (never thought about that one)
All great ideas!
Scubacat
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Steve
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C)
Theres just something seeing their eyes light up like a kid opening a Christmas present.. only to see the hope crushed and despair set in when the GP becomes visible.
waltr
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The gold could be dissolved and then precipitated out of the solution.
This is a common method to recover gold out of old electronics and ore from mines.
Google search will find how this is done.
This is a common method to recover gold out of old electronics and ore from mines.
Google search will find how this is done.
Scubacat
Elite Member
But that's what Cfmtc says: "was told by a refiner I would need 5 pounds of it before they would take it from me". I am not doing it myself. No way.
I watched a video a few nights ago of a guy refining the gold from a large amount of computer parts... this guy bought this stuff after hours of refining he ended up with 1 gram of gold... way too much work for that... I make more money landscaping lol...
Steve
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Same with catalytic converters.. guy did like 5 of them and got 0.25g or so of pt/pd
ONE thing you might find interesting is SOME GP rings are actually plated silver. Most say it though but not all
Scubacat
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Scubacat
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The last ring I found that made me ask the question was marked 925 14K GP. Unfortunately that is not always the case. The other things I accumulated are just GP or 1/20 14K GF or something like that. Alas.
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