Are we heading to $9AUD Silver?

[chowdersilver]

Since this is the silver to $9 thread, sometimes I hear there will be no physical for sale at $9.

I have noticed at our LCS when some grandpa apparently dies, their kids bring the silver down to see what it's worth. In every case I have seen, they are overwhelmed at how much the shop will give them. My assumption is a long as grandpas continue passing away, there will always be silver at LCS regardless of price.

 

[BeHereNow]

I have a friend who made a bunch of money in the 80-'s from recycled silver - not millions, but thousands or tens of thousands.
It was from silver recovery at x-ray labs - mostly dentists as I recall, as hospitals had a system he couldn't get into. He lived in the sticks, a lot of driving, not a lot of labs.
He did other metal recycling, so made good money over the long haul.
Now x-ray is all digital, as with most photography, but silver was sub $9, not considering inflation.
All it takes is one source with a simple extraction process.
Maybe those days are gone forever, I do not know.

You might be surprised how much film is still used in xrays, they just get processed and scanned straight away then filed away.

I saw someone on ebay selling like 12kilos of old films, they said they are apparently 2% silver so that's 240 grams of silver, they wanted spot for it. No takers

I probably glow in the dark from all the xrays over had, I probably have half a kilo in silver in all the dozens and hundreds of xrays I have.

No film used in x-rays at hospitals - that is how my son gets his fiat. He is in a big hospital, but 10 years or better since they had film.
Lots of old films laying around, but nothing new.
I checked and dental are slow at transitioning, still film begin used there.
There are companies making money from recycling dental x ray fixer.