Has anyone used these guys for refining? Specialty Metals Smelters & Refiners LLC

**Bling187** · 04-11-2018, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by CTscrapman

Hi im just checking to see if anyone on SMF has used this company before? Im approaching thier min weight of 3000#'s, and was planning on driving the load down to them just to see actual results versus selling to secondary, Thoughts?

And I will say that I was very unhappy.. lower than what the material would bring as scrap.
And I hand sorted out the good stuff to ship to Dan.. while I took the lowest grade in and got 14.50 lb..... His return on 160 LBS of ram was a hair over 1 to au and less than .5 PL

**aaron p** · 05-22-2018, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by Bling187

And I will say that I was very unhappy.. lower than what the material would bring as scrap.
And I hand sorted out the good stuff to ship to Dan.. while I took the lowest grade in and got 14.50 lb..... His return on 160 LBS of ram was a hair over 1 to au and less than .5 PL

Wow, thats terrible return. Spot gold around $1300. Ive seen gold ram around $17, 160lbs should be a hell of a lot more than $1300.

**PartTimeScrapper** · 05-29-2018, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by Bling187

And I will say that I was very unhappy.. lower than what the material would bring as scrap.
And I hand sorted out the good stuff to ship to Dan.. while I took the lowest grade in and got 14.50 lb..... His return on 160 LBS of ram was a hair over 1 to au and less than .5 PL

You will never get even close refining ram as you will just selling to the buyers here on the forum. Why? Because all the buyers here on the forum are looking for usable ram and paying a premium for the scrap stuff. Why you think I started the more then scrap value stuff in the first place.