Originally Posted by
miked
All in all an interesting thread but I want to point out one thing that I Scott just said.
" ask to be paid on a full accountability so you also recover the values of any other metals that are considered impurities but might be worth money."
Which is one of of the things that are of interest to me in this
ewaste business, am I getting paid for the other materials contained in them.
I find that the use of proper terminalogy is helpful. If I had enough ewaste to deal directly with a refinner I would now demand to be paid ""on a full accountability". Thanks to all and especially Scott. Mike.
When dealing with any metal, there are always other metals associated with it. If you are however only dealing with 100 lbs of 99.99 fine copper for example, you will have 99.99 lbs of copper but only .01 lbs of something else. As you increase the amount, so does the likely hood you will accumulated a sizable amount of other metals so that 1000 lbs might yield .1 lbs and 10,000 lbs might yield 1 lb. You can see my point.
Sometimes 99.95 or 95.0 fine copper is better to represent at a refiner rather than 99.99. in this case.
This is why for example, some refineries, will pay you 95% spot on sterling silver, upon assay, because they know they will make the money on the other metals used to alloy the silver to make it sterling. Many times there is a sizable amount of gold associated with the sterling that when accumulated becomes a sizable amount. Or even other metals, like Palladium or Platinum.
Scott
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