29-09-2011, 07:41 AM
Silver, unlike gold is fairly reactive chemically. It all depends on how it was stored originally and how it sunk, but I'd suspect that some 10% may have been chemically altered. It can be refined back into silver, unless it was changed into soluble salts - many silver salts are. Anyway, there is at least 150 -180 million dollars worth of silver after costs. Now, if it were gold, they really have struck it big!
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass