>>What kind of money could I get for a nice chunk of lumium?

I sell it for about 2p per volume. I smelt it into ingots for ease of use: much easier to have 1 deed for an ingot of 50 volumes than 20 shards.

>>Or for steel

Nothing. Maybe 5-10p per 200 volumes?

>>silver for that matter?

Same as steel.

I have started buying common and uncommon metals. Ingot or raw ore, refined or unrefined. Only had 3 people come to my shop this last week, so I'll use this as a chance to advertise. I will be in my shop, Delendra's Craft Supplies, in the Riverhaven Market Plaza on Wednesdays and Saturdays 10pm to 12pm Eastern Time for the purpose of buying metals. I will also purchase outside of those times if I am not running trade routes. My prices per volume in lirum are as follows. I will also pay equivalent kronar prices if in Zoluren.

Metal	Refined	Unrefined or Raw Ore
Copper	80	60
Covellite	40	30
Gold	4000	3000
Iron	80	60
Lead	32	24
Nickel	64	48
Oravir	32	24
Platinum	8000	6000
Silver	1600	1200
Tin	24	18
Zinc	56	42

Having the metals in ingots will make the buying process go faster, even if you don't refine it. I do take raw nuggets, it just takes longer to total the volumes.

Delendra

I don't have a handle on rare metal pricing, so I'm not too keen on buying rare or very rare. I've had a 200 volume ingot of 99 pure lumium for 600 platinum lirum that I was hoping an armorsmith would find worthy of grabbing, but it's sat for a a couple months now. Even if I can't sell the common metals, I can use them myself for work orders with minimal loss. Only metals I've had luck selling in the rare and above catagory are kertig and haralun. I'll offer the same percentages on those two based on my selling price. We can discuss that when you drop off your common metals. Majority of the metal I sell is Work Order Bronze (silver/bronze mix) and the different grades of pure steel, ie. common metals.

Delendra

PS I can't believe I used the word keen.