Originally Posted by
alloy2
Ahh now you have my attention ( fluxing and smelting ) I have a several thousand tons of material to run through the centrifuge the concentrates consisting of gold and platinum will be smelted without further processing.The resulting dore refinery ready.
Since the material I'll be running is consistent in its nature will spend the money to have a laboratory formulate a fluxing agent best suited to the material I'm smelting.
My days on the forum are limited as I have sold my sail boat, then during this upcoming week will move back to the mainland to pick up on this project where I left off last fall before moving to the Island.
I will not have internet access at my new location, I have enjoyed sharing my experiences from the many years I worked as a scrapper but times have changed and so has the industry. What may have worked in my day no longer applies to today’s world.
I am finding that the old ways of doing some things, seems to work better a lot of times. For example, instead of pouring on a table, I use a sandtrap. Not only does it provide support for molds, but also leaches the heat really well, specially in a large cone mold. Same with crucibles. And if a crucible does fail, the same takes the metal and slag without spattering everywhere.
Your knowledge and experience have real value, specially in today's world where there is such a drastic distance between the old ways of doing things, and the new. For so very long very few people were interested in metallurgy in the United States, there was a gap here in the States, yet in other countries they continued to advance. An amalgam of old and new that uses the best methods of both is better than one or the other in my humble opinion.
I'm sorry to hear you won't be on the forum very much in the future. But when you do get a chance, stop by. You add value, and information!
Scott
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