You can find all sorts of valuable things in things that look sciency like this. Like platinum bits and pieces. He was probably hoping to find something else th

You can find all sorts of valuable things in things that look sciency like this. Like platinum bits and pieces. He was probably hoping to find something else than steel. Glowing stuff can also be very expensive, but you need to know people who might be interested, and they usually aren’t the best company. Also, proper equipment to manipulate it.