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>>55126871
Maybe rare for a miner's camp but believe it or not good silver was tossed along with regular trash pretty often in more established town dumps, most silverware one digs is silverplate of course (lower left in pic) which I habitually save as scrap or to give to hippy crafter acquaintances. That pencil is 14k gold filled, got it in a bag of filled scrap I'll eventually soak in concentrated nitric to recover the karat foils from, never found any silver ones. I'm especially curious about the yield from gold filled pocket watch cases, I buy them when cheap but really want to get a good idea of what they'll yield. Fount one gleaming in the sun while walking an old riverbank once, about shat myself thinking it was solid but alas it was just a 20 year warranted case.