In order for you get the most benefit from the people with experience, I feel it's important that you understand our backgrounds. Not only mine but, also the backgrounds of others that provide you with reliable information, such as Harold. None of us are blowing our own horns. We just think you need to know where we stand and what info we can confidently provide you with.
When I got out of the Air Force, in 1965, I got a job in the lab doing plating bath analyses for the world's largest seller of base metal plating systems. After a couple of years, I became senior chemist for a company that was not only the world's largest seller of precious metals plating systems but, in the same facility, had the biggest gold refinery west of the Mississippi. I was chemist for both and was lucky enough to learn from the best of the best. About 5 years later, I opened a successful gold plating shop/gold refinery. After a few more years, I got bored with plating, since I felt there was nothing more to learn, and I've been in refining ever since. You never know it all in refining. In fact, you don't know what you don't know until you know a lot. My knowlege in plating is why I'm pretty good at electrolytic refining.
Here's a list of PM bearing scrap items that I made up awhile back. I've moved around a lot in my life and have ended up with unique widespread experiences. This wasn't necessarily good for me but, it is good for you, IF YOU ASK QUESTIONS. Except for the automobile scrap and hard drives, I have high volume, hands on, experience running everything on the list.
http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=95
You people are probably getting the best gold technology education that money can't buy on this forum. There is nothing else like it on the net. You've got to participate and ask questions, though. The other night, late, I noticed that there was only one member on the forum besides myself. I checked his profile and saw that he was in Malaysia. I once spent a lot of time scrounging gold electronic scrap in Malaysia, so I PMed him to try and get him to participate on the forum. He was a real nice guy. He said the forum was great but he was only reading. He probably didn't ask questions because of the language barrier or that he was a newbie. If your primary language isn't English, make a stab at it. We'll sort it out. There is no such thing as a dumb question. Only about 1/3 of the members participate at all. All of you are capable. I'm totally convinced that any of you could learn enough on this forum to earn a good living at it. GET INVOLVED - ASK QUESTIONS!
When I got out of the Air Force, in 1965, I got a job in the lab doing plating bath analyses for the world's largest seller of base metal plating systems. After a couple of years, I became senior chemist for a company that was not only the world's largest seller of precious metals plating systems but, in the same facility, had the biggest gold refinery west of the Mississippi. I was chemist for both and was lucky enough to learn from the best of the best. About 5 years later, I opened a successful gold plating shop/gold refinery. After a few more years, I got bored with plating, since I felt there was nothing more to learn, and I've been in refining ever since. You never know it all in refining. In fact, you don't know what you don't know until you know a lot. My knowlege in plating is why I'm pretty good at electrolytic refining.
Here's a list of PM bearing scrap items that I made up awhile back. I've moved around a lot in my life and have ended up with unique widespread experiences. This wasn't necessarily good for me but, it is good for you, IF YOU ASK QUESTIONS. Except for the automobile scrap and hard drives, I have high volume, hands on, experience running everything on the list.
http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=95
You people are probably getting the best gold technology education that money can't buy on this forum. There is nothing else like it on the net. You've got to participate and ask questions, though. The other night, late, I noticed that there was only one member on the forum besides myself. I checked his profile and saw that he was in Malaysia. I once spent a lot of time scrounging gold electronic scrap in Malaysia, so I PMed him to try and get him to participate on the forum. He was a real nice guy. He said the forum was great but he was only reading. He probably didn't ask questions because of the language barrier or that he was a newbie. If your primary language isn't English, make a stab at it. We'll sort it out. There is no such thing as a dumb question. Only about 1/3 of the members participate at all. All of you are capable. I'm totally convinced that any of you could learn enough on this forum to earn a good living at it. GET INVOLVED - ASK QUESTIONS!
