Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Funny thing i just thought of most scrap yards will not buy anything in ingot form but you can melt down gold and sell it to anybody. My point being that yards wont take smelted copper or zinc because it might be destroyed currency.But you could steal a 100 grand in gold jewelry and melt it into bars and no one would even question where it came from theres something strange about that.
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Actually most of the scrap yards I have contacted, that do not accept ingots of metal, don't accept the ingots not because they are not sure where it came from, but rather because they do not have any definitive way of being able to tell the alloy composition or even if it is alloyed. More and more scrap yards however are using XRF guns, like the Niton or Skyray, to test metal composition. I believe all you really need to do is locate a scrap yard that does XRF analysis, and you probably will be able to sell your ingots to them.Originally Posted by fordsix
Here is a youtube video of someone using an XRF scanner to detect metal alloy composition:
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