squarecoinman
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This post is about the cost of processing, what I would like to see is samples of what has been processed , and the cost of the process , safety cost and total "profit " / product. If you have samples please post them here , and if possible with photo´s.
I processed 3 kilo of x-ray photo´s ( got them for free from a hospital, I have still several kilo´s left over )
Transport to hospital and back by public transport 3 us dollars
5 liter of bleach 10 us dollars
500 gram of dextrose 9 us dollars ( I still have 90 % left over )
500 gram of caustic soda 11 us dollars ( I still have 90 % left over )
Gloves 6 us dollars ( they can be used for other refining )
Glassware 20 us dollars ( they can be used for other refining )
Glasses 24 us dollars ( they can be used for other refining )
so if I count the material and transport together I will get 15 us dollars. The total amount of clean silver I got was 22 gram.
I estimate that the smelting cost in electricity will be 1 dollar.
with the current silver price i will get 16 us dollars
Total gain in US dollar 0, but I did this to learn the process so I do not care about the cost, however I will process the rest of the x-ray photos a nice day, but would not do it again after this since I now know the process very well. I did learn a lot and got a lot more silver the second time.
scm
I processed 3 kilo of x-ray photo´s ( got them for free from a hospital, I have still several kilo´s left over )
Transport to hospital and back by public transport 3 us dollars
5 liter of bleach 10 us dollars
500 gram of dextrose 9 us dollars ( I still have 90 % left over )
500 gram of caustic soda 11 us dollars ( I still have 90 % left over )
Gloves 6 us dollars ( they can be used for other refining )
Glassware 20 us dollars ( they can be used for other refining )
Glasses 24 us dollars ( they can be used for other refining )
so if I count the material and transport together I will get 15 us dollars. The total amount of clean silver I got was 22 gram.
I estimate that the smelting cost in electricity will be 1 dollar.
with the current silver price i will get 16 us dollars
Total gain in US dollar 0, but I did this to learn the process so I do not care about the cost, however I will process the rest of the x-ray photos a nice day, but would not do it again after this since I now know the process very well. I did learn a lot and got a lot more silver the second time.
scm