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How To Sell Scrap Silver Plate, Fake Silver, and Silver Plated Scrap

We all know scrap silver has lots of value but right now it is a little hard to come by. Often We will see things like silver plated items for very cheap, and wish they were even worth 200x less then silver, because you would still be making a profit. Well, those metals are worth just that.

You see, immitation silver is almost always a copper alloy. Brass right now is about 2 dollars a pound. Copper is about $3.50 per pound, and nickel is $9 per pound. This means that the stuff most people think is junk is, in all actuallity, a very hot commodity. The price of copper has skyrocketed up to th eprice of $4.50 per pound in th epast few months and the value many other scrap metals is suspected to follow suit. Brass, bronze, ect. Even steel is up to $240 per gross ton.

Above, are the scrap metal prices, almost all base scrap metal prices, but when you buy something that is silver plated, it is usually one of the above metals alloys together. Scrap silver plate, and silver plated recycling, junk salvage value is read about at How To Scrap Silver Plate and Salvage Old Plated Silver.

In general, metals like cupronickel, nickel, copper, zink, and real silver are alloyed in fake silver to give the effect of being real silver. Your job as a scrapper is to find the value in metals other people dont have any idea what to do with.

If you are a scrapper, you can sell any type of cupronickel as scrap or brass, easily. Almost all silver plate is silver plated brass of some type. Its just the breass is a nickel copper alloy, or a nickel copper zinc alloy. The next thing to look out for is imitation silver; you know, the stuff tht doesn’t have any type of silver plated onto it, but is just shiney and silver colored?

If you have never sold scrap metal before in your entire life, I suggest you learn more about How To Scrap Metal here. And, also, do not forget that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Good Luck Scrapping!

About the Author

TheIrrationalist ahs been scrapping and selling scrap metal since he was a teenager. Slowly people have learned more about salvage value of metals, and TheIrrationalist has been there to guide them along.

For more information on selling scrap metal, including prices, and scrap metal tips, check out his blog.

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