How e-scrap is processed

Originally Posted by BumpRacerX

I'm guessing they take the bins at the end, and then soak them in acid, etc much like the processes used for fingers?

When you are dealing with metals on a large scale, pyrometallurgy is used to melt the metals into bars, then they are subjected to electrochemistry to plate out copper, what is left at the anode is called anode slimes, which are your precious metals, which are then processed further with acids.

Scott