The Gustavus Thread

[KzScrapper]

That doesn't really sound like taking the day off Gus!?

[gustavus]

That doesn't really sound like taking the day off Gus!?

Credit goes to my woman she did the mother board sorting, my day was pretty laid back but not over yet I'm heading out around 7:00 this evening with a load for Jack.

To answeer Dunemaul yes I did some copper from refridgeration to recover silver which in the end turned out to be solder with 95% tin. No cigar, but it was a good way to kill the month of January.

It takes a good furnace to melt copper and plenty of fuel, in the end your yard will more than likely pay as number 2 copper. For instance my 500 gallon propane tank was at 50% now at 20 each 10% cost me $100.00 so I've used up $200.00 worth of fuel for $80.00 worth of copper. Had there been silver it would have paid off in spades.

You can not chase every rainbow and expect to find that pot of gold eveytime, my advice is put your time and effort into something that will profit you. This is why I have quit refining, too much labor for so little return. In two years I've managed 1.5 troy ounces of gold, several lbs of silver, still less than 2 G's

Milling those chips good idea if it were me I would also toss in those gold plated pins into the mill the gold will abrade from the pins, moma will come back to popa in the end. If your mill is only capible of handling small loads be sure to pull 30 grams to add to your assay batch.

Dealing with the assay batch, say you have 1 lb from all your batches dumop this onto a clean paper you should have a mound. Take a peice of heavy cardboard or a sheet of tin, halve that pile by drawing the cut line a short distance from center then quater the pile.

From each quarter take 15 grams, this will be your assay sample. It is advisable to have an independant assay as well send a sample to the refinery you plan to use then compare. You may want to consider other refinerys to send samples too.

Most Univesitys will do an assay for you the downside is that it may not qualify as evidence in court should somethng go amiss with your refinery.

Cetified assay is best, if you want to insure your shipment aqainst loss by damaged container mishandling by your freight carrier or outright theft you have a benchmark from your assay to establish value.

This is one reason I would never allow the refiner to pay for my shipment, if it was insued who is the beneficiary. Times up gottoa run.