If you are not sure, ask a refiner

I fairly recently was contacted by someone who has several tons of a material that originated from industrial catalytic converters.

Unfortunately, he has already broken down and incinerated the material. Now he is stuck with tons of material that no refiner will touch. I ran a 1lb sample and discovered there were other minerals involved in the material that encapsulated much of the precious metals in solution which made it very difficult and expensive to extract. Nearly impossible unless you have the right equipment and are willing to spend the money, time, effort and energy for only a small return.



Just a friendly bit of advance from a refiner to a scrapper. If you are not sure how to process certain types of scrap, ask a refiner before you devalue your scrap by scrapping it into a form that makes it cost prohibitive for a refiner to process.

Scott