Originally Posted by
NobleMetalWorks
This is the very reason why I no longer toll refine. When precious metals are involved, there are so many shady characters, including the major refineries, willing and waiting for the chance to steal. Because there are so many refiners, large refiners, who rip people off, it gives all refiners a bad name. That means, for the small refiner, that we have to work extra hard if we are toll refining, so that our customers know we are not stealing from them. But here is the other flip side of the problem, people always believe, with their entire being, that there is more gold in their material than their actually is.
I process material I purchase now, instead of toll refining for others. That way the transaction is done, both parties agree to the price, and there is no cheating anyone out of anything.
Scott
Ha imagine that someone in the scrap industry trying to rip someone off!!!! The real problem with smelting is there is not a gold standard or certain way that everything is smelted and recovered. Everyone has a different process and way of doing it.
Its just like being a steel mill and trying to buy everything for as cheap as possible and trying to get maximum return out of your melt. Every mill has a different way of melting there steel, different buying program, different alloys produced, different mixing programs, different grades of material they buy, etc. In my opinions there are to many variables to smelting for it to get as close as you can to 100 percent recovery. There is going to be waste and material up the stack and into the baghouse. IMO.
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