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How much per ounce do pawn shops typically pay for gold?

I owned pawn stores for 35 years, now I own a gold buying store.Every pawn and gold buying store in your area will offer a different amount for your gold.If you have an ounce of 24K bullion, like a bar of gold, my pawn stores would offer 90% of the spot value. Today, my gold buying store offers 95% of spot.If it was an ounce of less expensive 10K jewelry, it would be melted so the pawn offer would be around 70%.If it was an ounce of sellable jewelry, the loan offer may be 120% of spot.If it was an ounce of signed jewelry, the offer may be 150% to 200%, or more, of spot value.Just today, I paid nearly 500% of spot for 27 nice signed jewelry pieces in my gold buying store.You’re going to need to call around and see if they will tell you over the phone what they will pay. Most stores will want you to come in.Any store that isn’t afraid to tell you a price over the phone is likely going to be paying a fair price and very likely they are offering higher than other stores.

How much does a bar of gold cost?

There are several standards you might be thinking of when you refer to a standard bar of gold.There is the 400oz bar of gold. This is the one you see in movies .. the one used by banks and the one that is used to store gold in Fort Knox (yes really)The 400oz bar breaks down as 12.5 kilos and is worth a spurt above 500k with variance depending on the day (at 1700 per ounce it sits at 680k)Then there is the singular kilo bar standard at 99.95 or 99.99% purity which is used by the personal buyer for storage and investment. This is the usual measure of storing gold for the person who uses a bank vault or safe.This comes in at the standard multiple of a per ounce price (again for calculation purposes I am using troy ounces in a kilo at a price of 1700 which will be 32.15 times the ounce price = 54.5kThen you arrive at the easy accumulation unit which can either be in bullion investment coin form for easy transit and accumulation, or can actually be a bullion bar .. albeit a very small one .. as an ounce is only 31.1 grams (in gold we talk Troy ounce not imperial standard)And at 1700 an ounce a single ounce of gold is .. 1700 dollars !If you are using in Jewellery or trying to harvest from rivers and such .. or even gold prospect (go out there and be adventurous!) you will be weighing your gold in a gram weight which at the 1700 per ounce price is 54 dollars a gram. (Divide by 31.1 to derive the per gram price)Please note I used a fictitious market price to provide a guide to how you would calculate a price based on the amount involved and how to derive a single unit price at each level.The amount given will fluctuate but the means of determination will not .. therefore this can continue to provide a guide.

What type of metal can be used to make a sword?

Are you looking to make one? Have one made? Or just satisfying curiosity?If you want to make one (and I’ll tell you right now, it’s a LOT of work!), and you’re going to heat treat it yourself, the best, simplest, easiest to work, easiest to harden and temper, most forgiving steel would be a very simple carbon steel like 1084.If you have some metalworking experience, and a good belt grinder and high quality grinding belts, then a great steel is 5160… harder to grind, and a little harder to heat treat, but makes a good, tough, blade.There are also a lot of good high quality stainless steels that make good swords, but many of those are really not heat treatable by anything the average home shop guy has. And grinding them into a sword? Have some cash set aside for some spendy grinding belts… lots of them.Swords CAN be made of materials like wrought iron (for that authentic Iron Age blade that will bend at the first hit), aluminum (looks shiny, makes a shitty blade that breaks if you hit a piece of wood). Titanium makes a lousy sword… Bronze gets lots of points for gorgeous looks, and Bronze Age authenticity, but also sucks…Really, steels are the best material for swords… have been for 2000 years or more, and will be for the forseeable future. Are there exotic alloys that make a good sword? Sure! The alloy will cost you a few grand, and you’ll have to machine it and heat treat it, and it may not be possible to polish it unless you have a diamond grinding wheel…Yeah.. steel, be it simple carbon steel (good enough from the Dark Ages to the 19th century) to modern stainless steels, is still the hands down winner for making a sword.

There is mercury inside a thermometer, wouldn't it kill a person if it popped open?

Elemental mercury (or more accurately its vapor) is highly neurotoxic when the exposure is continuous over a period of years, months, weeks, and perhaps days or hours (depending on concentration).    But if you put some mercury liquid on your hand, or even swallowed it, almost none would be absorbed and you would probably have no symptoms.  However, it doesn't follow that it would be a good idea to do that.  Not least, any mercury liquid spilled on floor or bench could vaporise over the longer term and be absorbed that way. Mercury liquid is best treated as a dangerous substance, though only dangerous in causing mental etc disturbances, not killing you like cyanide or ricin.

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