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**NobleMetalWorks** · 12-11-2012, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by gustavus

Unfortunately if your contacts catylist is zeolite there are no precious metals present.

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There are precious metals involved in the mix, this is the problem, he has pyrolized different catalytic material and mixed it all up. I was able to extract silver and some PGMs.

Scott

**gustavus** · 12-12-2012, 03:44 AM

Originally Posted by NobleMetalWorks

There are precious metals involved in the mix, this is the problem, he has pyrolized different catalytic material and mixed it all up. I was able to extract silver and some PGMs.

Scott

The guy is on the right track, recovery of catylist from insoluble carriers such as carbon and zeolite are best done using pyrometalurgical techniques, such as smelting. In my opinion he probably screwed up by not adding a collector metal such as copper.

Use the search feature of your pdf reader " zeolite" this document, gives a list of precious metals used as a catylist on zeolite. http://www.preciousmetals.umicore.co...lCatalysts.pdf

**NobleMetalWorks** · 12-12-2012, 03:54 AM

I'm fairly sure that is what happened. When I asked him point blank what type of catalytic material it was, because I have never seen all those metals present in one type of material before, he just answered that the came from various sources but that it shouldn't matter. He purchased a giant induction furnace that he claims he can stand it, that cost him well over a million, and then went further to name so huge industrial incinerator that he could drive a forklift into it was so huge, at the time I thought it was just talk, and I have heard in this business a lot of that. But now that I think about it, he did say he threw 200+ lbs of ceramic CPUs into his induction furnace just to see what would happen, and I think now he really did. He has more money than he knows what to do with, and likes hoarding industrial equipment. I think he incinerated lots of things and threw them all together.

Scott

**gustavus** · 12-12-2012, 04:15 AM

Originally Posted by NobleMetalWorks

I'm fairly sure that is what happened. When I asked him point blank what type of catalytic material it was, because I have never seen all those metals present in one type of material before, he just answered that the came from various sources but that it shouldn't matter. He purchased a giant induction furnace that he claims he can stand it, that cost him well over a million, and then went further to name so huge industrial incinerator that he could drive a forklift into it was so huge, at the time I thought it was just talk, and I have heard in this business a lot of that. But now that I think about it, he did say he threw 200+ lbs of ceramic CPUs into his induction furnace just to see what would happen, and I think now he really did. He has more money than he knows what to do with, and likes hoarding industrial equipment. I think he incinerated lots of things and threw them all together.

Scott

I would think for that kind of $$$ the furnace would be outfitted with after burners and a bag house to meet EPA specs. I really don't think that he purchased that equipment on a whim.

The guys that have the money aren't going to make you rich.