Mining stock certificates (along with other company stock certificates) may indeed have considerable value.
In 1974 I was a deputy coroner in Spokane county, Washington. I was called to the apartment of an elderly Japanese-American woman who died a natural death and lived alone without any close relatives. As coroner, I had the duty to hold all the deceased's valuables until they could be claimed by legitimate heirs. Amongst the lady's papers was a mining stock certificate for 30,000 shares of Midnite Mines. They had been purchased in the early 1950's for 10 cents a share. Midnite Mines became a large uranium mining concern (see the collectible mineral AUTINITE from the Day Break Mine, Spokane County, Washington). Her 30,000 shares had never been cashed in and I looked them up on the mining stock exchange which was active in those days in Spokane. The shares were worth a bit over $10 dollars/share at the time of her death. You do the math......... CHEERS.........BOB
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