I owned a pawn shop for a few years and have bought plenty of gold and silver. I am thinking about branching out into buying dental scrap and making calls on the local dentists offices and see if I can make an offer on their scrap dental.
I have been trying to do some research on the best way to go about this. The refinery I send my product to charges me $150 to separate the metals and told me most of his clients who buy scrap dental send in 500 grams at a time.
I also did some research online and I found a lot of refineries socialite dentists sending their products into them. Some buyers go to the dentists office and break up and separate the metals and test them on the spot and make an offer. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJCCDLGVzA
One question I have is how could they test the silver scrap for how much Plat and palladium is present?
I saw another scrap buyer who says he pays $4 per gram for silver dental scrap. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcvrvAzmE4I
I am confused here. I have been trying to research online exactly what is in silver scrap or amalgam and it does not mention gold, Platinum or palladium:
"Dental amalgam is a mixture of metals, consisting of liquid (elemental) mercury and a powdered alloy composed of silver, tin, and copper. Approximately 50% of dental amalgam is elemental mercury by weight."
That does not sound like it is worth $4 a gram.
I can see where silver caps and crowns may be worth that. I believe those may be as much as 30% gold.
Is there anyone out there that has found any formulas that would be willing to share? Has anyone found numbers that work for buying filling and silver crowns?
I am comfortable buying gold dental scrap. I can test that like any other gold and see the percentage. I am not ready to start handing over money for silver dental yet though. I would sure appreciate some help. Thanks in advance.
I have been trying to do some research on the best way to go about this. The refinery I send my product to charges me $150 to separate the metals and told me most of his clients who buy scrap dental send in 500 grams at a time.
I also did some research online and I found a lot of refineries socialite dentists sending their products into them. Some buyers go to the dentists office and break up and separate the metals and test them on the spot and make an offer. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJCCDLGVzA
One question I have is how could they test the silver scrap for how much Plat and palladium is present?
I saw another scrap buyer who says he pays $4 per gram for silver dental scrap. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcvrvAzmE4I
I am confused here. I have been trying to research online exactly what is in silver scrap or amalgam and it does not mention gold, Platinum or palladium:
"Dental amalgam is a mixture of metals, consisting of liquid (elemental) mercury and a powdered alloy composed of silver, tin, and copper. Approximately 50% of dental amalgam is elemental mercury by weight."
That does not sound like it is worth $4 a gram.
I can see where silver caps and crowns may be worth that. I believe those may be as much as 30% gold.
Is there anyone out there that has found any formulas that would be willing to share? Has anyone found numbers that work for buying filling and silver crowns?
I am comfortable buying gold dental scrap. I can test that like any other gold and see the percentage. I am not ready to start handing over money for silver dental yet though. I would sure appreciate some help. Thanks in advance.