Thank you everyone for all your replies, i just recovered a little gold off of fingers (granted wasnt worth it for only 15 grams of fingers but it makes a pretty snow globe when i was shaking the jar with water lol) sorry i couldnt post any pictures it wasnt allowing me to upload and i couldnt share a link. Its almost like a mylar but the plastic has a redish/orange color to it and as far as i can tell its just the ends that are plated. The cable is very very thin.