Originally Posted by
eesakiwi
They look like they have Silver contacts in there. That would add up to a good amount of Silver.
If theres magnets then the rests probably got a lot of Steel in it.
I guess, take one of them apart a bit to see. But I'm thinking 'Silver contacts' at the moment.
Originally Posted by
aurum
Sometimes on older higher end telecom gear, those contacts may contain gold and/or palladium as well. Usually the gold/palladium contacts are very small, rectangular, 1/8" or less in length and very narrow. If you get this material in quantity, it is very good material. I'm sure most buyers on here would be interested. There was a good discussion about this type of material on the gold refining forum a while ago.
So, not sure If what I took off are what the contacts you guys are referring to..... They were metal, non-magnetic, little nubs that were.... soldered? or glued? not sure, to what looked like little copper transformer spools. I have many various pictures here that may provide more clues.
https://imgur.com/a/yCAan2t
Not sure how to tell if they are silver or not. They look kinda like they may be aluminum, but seem like they might be too heavy to be aluminum, but still not sure. I didnt see anything that looked like gold, but stopped after snapping off these little pieces. There is certainly more taking apart to do!
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