A shocking revelation from the refiner I was planning to use they are not at the top of the food chain although their web-page makes claims that they process in house.
Check out the deception for yourself Company Profile http://www.pmrrefiner.com/Corporate-Profile.php
In previous telephone calls I've always spoken with the top dog, he was not available this afternoon which allowed me to get some straight answers from one of the employees. The question asked was if they were using wet chemistry or the state of the art Plasma Arc Furnace.
Here is what I was told, PMR receives the cats then decans them to mill the comb into a fine powder which gets shipped out a mining company that owns a P.A.F. when the guy realized that he had said to much when I asked if this material was being shipped to Sudbury Ontario. He tried to wriggle out by saying they had booked time on the furnace without further comment.
International Nickel has a large nickel mine located in Northern Manitoba from the ore mined they get a certain amount of platinum group metals which they ship to their processing plant in Sudbury. I was already working this lead but got some woman who had only recently started her employment with the company and she told me that the cat material was not suitable to mix with the feed stock and that it was shipped to the UK. Well it looks like I've come full circle after that conversation I had with PMR.
When time permits I will l do more follow up on the Sudbury plant.
I also asked the average value per pound for mixed domestic cats, PMR guy said between $20.00 / $40.00 lb, I made some notes of today's spot prices then when my assay results some back we'll know how far off base he was. With the safe spread he gave himself I'm hoping that my material assays $40.00 lb o better. as there are no exotic converters in that lot.
What I really need to know is what mesh size to grind my cat combs down to making them suitable feedstock for the plasma arc furnace.
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