If the old gray matter serves correctly, for large quantities of film/paper the
recovery companies simply took the stock and burned it to ash then recovered
the silver from the ash.
Only suitable on a large scale.
Howard Efner
73 de KF5RGU
On Apr 26, 2019, at 19:06, `Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Of course this is pretty generally true of the commodities market. A good
place for amateur investors to lose their shirts.
Once upon a time the largest purchaser of silver other than the
U.S.Government was Kodak. This was back in the days when the Hunt brothers
tried to corner the silver market and failed, losing much of their fortune
and I think doing some jail time.
On 4/26/2019 5:53 PM, Jean-David Beyer (Redacted sender jeandavid8 for DMARC)
wrote:
On 4/26/19 8:14 PM, `Richard Knoppow wrote:
???? I have no idea how much metallic silver may be in the emulsion butHere is a web site that can get you the spot price of silver.
x-ray film typically had thick emulsions so there might be quite a bit.
A web search should show the value of silver these days.
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
It supposes at least 99.9% pure silver; large purchasers, such as China
and India, want 99.99% pure stuff. And bear in mind you cannot get the
spot price of silver. In small quantities, expect to pay a 10% to 25%
premium. For larger quantities (tons), expect to pay 100% premium, if
you can find it at all. And of course you could get only the bid price
for selling and only the ask price if you try so sell.
--
Richard Knoppow
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
WB6KBL
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