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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4234163, member: 360"]In short? </p><p><br /></p><p>No. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, gold-plate has real gold, but the gold is literally microscopic. You'd need thousands of pounds of gold-plate scrap before you got anything worth sending to the melter's for. Same for silver-plate. In my experience, the scrapper probably won't even bother touching it because it's too much effort for such a tiny, tiny reward.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4234163, member: 360"]In short? No. Yes, gold-plate has real gold, but the gold is literally microscopic. You'd need thousands of pounds of gold-plate scrap before you got anything worth sending to the melter's for. Same for silver-plate. In my experience, the scrapper probably won't even bother touching it because it's too much effort for such a tiny, tiny reward.[/QUOTE]
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