It’s Jewelry But…..

[jim tn]

A chess board pawn was my initial thoughts! HH jim tn

[Badger-NH]

21 hours ago, KnT said:

  My husband finds the gold fillings left after someone tosses the cremated ashes of people onto our little beach. It's creepy and weird and I make him throw it back. That item is trash worthy.

Any gold in a person's body would melt during cremation and would not appear in someone's ashes. The fillings your husband found were probably lost by someone swimming or playing at the beach. 

https://www.elementalnw.com/ufaqs/can-i-get-the-gold-fillings-medical-implants-bones-etc-back/#:~:text=While the crown may look,the process and is unrecoverable.

https://fcaaz.org/1761-2/#:~:text=At cremation temperatures%2C any gold,in with the bone fragments.

 

[King-Of-Bling]

4 hours ago, Badger-NH said:

Any gold in a person's body would melt during cremation and would not appear in someone's ashes. The fillings your husband found were probably lost by someone swimming or playing at the beach. 

https://www.elementalnw.com/ufaqs/can-i-get-the-gold-fillings-medical-implants-bones-etc-back/#:~:text=While the crown may look,the process and is unrecoverable.

https://fcaaz.org/1761-2/#:~:text=At cremation temperatures%2C any gold,in with the bone fragments.

 

You have a good point. I have done 100s of "Burials at sea". Where I would have small boxes with small bags of remains with names on them. I would then open the bags and dump overboard one after the other. At no time did I notice chunks , or blobs of gold in these bags. But I also wasn't really spending time looking specifically for that either. It wasn't the best part of my job and I wanted to be done with it. The worst is when it was windy , which was often. Human ashes blowing back into your face is not very pleasant. 

[bklein]

I’ve found crowns in obvious ashes at the beach. A special screw to fix a broken bone along with it all.

[Compass]

12 hours ago, Badger-NH said:

Any gold in a person's body would melt during cremation and would not appear in someone's ashes. The fillings your husband found were probably lost by someone swimming or playing at the beach. 

https://www.elementalnw.com/ufaqs/can-i-get-the-gold-fillings-medical-implants-bones-etc-back/#:~:text=While the crown may look,the process and is unrecoverable.

https://fcaaz.org/1761-2/#:~:text=At cremation temperatures%2C any gold,in with the bone fragments.

 

Gold fillings can definitely survive a cremation. It depends on the cremation temperature (1400 to 2000 degrees F) and the alloy makeup of the gold. 10K gold melts at 1665 degrees F and 24K gold melts at 1945 degrees F. I have found many gold dental crowns over the years and most show some signs of charring or partial melting. I found 3 on one hunt and often find cremation tags nearby.

[KnT]

12 hours ago, Badger-NH said:

Any gold in a person's body would melt during cremation and would not appear in someone's ashes. The fillings your husband found were probably lost by someone swimming or playing at the beach. 

https://www.elementalnw.com/ufaqs/can-i-get-the-gold-fillings-medical-implants-bones-etc-back/#:~:text=While the crown may look,the process and is unrecoverable.

https://fcaaz.org/1761-2/#:~:text=At cremation temperatures%2C any gold,in with the bone fragments.

 

They were melted amalgum.. Not shaped like a filling. Seen enough of them to know the difference. 

[Badger-NH]

11 hours ago, KnT said:

They were melted amalgum.. Not shaped like a filling. Seen enough of them to know the difference. 

I found a piece of melted gold at the beach about the size of a filling. I took it to a gold and jewelry dealer and he said it was 14k. I thought maybe it was a small gold ring that had fallen into a campfire but now dental gold seems possible.

Gold is gold to me. I don't care where it comes from. I have four gold crowns in my teeth. If they ever scatter my ashes at the beach, I hope someone finds them.  🙂

[Badger-NH]

12 hours ago, Compass said:

Gold fillings can definitely survive a cremation. It depends on the cremation temperature (1400 to 2000 degrees F) and the alloy makeup of the gold. 10K gold melts at 1665 degrees F and 24K gold melts at 1945 degrees F. I have found many gold dental crowns over the years and most show some signs of charring or partial melting. I found 3 on one hunt and often find cremation tags nearby.

I'm inclined to agree. The crematoriums probably tell their clients that gold is unrecoverable just to make their job easier.

 

[Compass]

3 hours ago, Badger-NH said:

I'm inclined to agree. The crematoriums probably tell their clients that gold is unrecoverable just to make their job easier.

 

Here is one of many interesting articles about cremation metals:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/crematoriums-recovering-precious-metals-dead-bodies-1.4623039

Before 1970 less than 10% of Americans opted for cremation. Since about 2016 that percentage rose to over 50% and now several states are in the 70% - 80% range. Metal recovery after cremation has become a big business and it is surprising that any dental gold makes its way to cremation urns and to beaches where it is found with metal detectors. 

I believe that many of the gold crowns that I have found may have been from earlier cremations when the price of gold was much lower. Even though cremations are on the rise it may be more difficult to find the resulting dental gold in the future.