Cheers for the reply.

He's using needlenose pliers at the moment, but when you're breaking down 40+ items a day, it's getting to his hands (60+).

I was hoping there was some form of metal chipper or crusher or something like that.



Most of the small stones are worthless, even diamonds - up to about 0.3mm - even then it depends on the quality.
98% of items with stones can just be crushed (including the stones) simply because scrap gold is so insanely high.

Hmm, might have to look down the melting/furnace root - similar to how the smelters who process scrap gold use.
(chuck it in a pot, heat it up...)


Cheers