I have been running my small lab for a number of years now.
I have now and again detected rhodium, it being so demanding and in such small quantities as the plating of silverware and jewelry.
It has never seemed necessary for me to try and recover independently to the normal dross of a base metal digestion and inquatation.
But I have never thrown any of it away and it should be in my primary waste drum.
I am planning to harvest this material soon, mostly Silver chloride and other insoluble compounds. with some metals.
I have run test lots and can recover everything but the rhodium.
Seeing as rhodium at £8,610 an ounce I am considering that may be a good portion of its value.
How are you at least recovering rhodium so you can come to a ruff idea of a value?
Or is it necessary to just get it into an alloy and send that to J-M (matthey.com)for an assay?
I have now and again detected rhodium, it being so demanding and in such small quantities as the plating of silverware and jewelry.
It has never seemed necessary for me to try and recover independently to the normal dross of a base metal digestion and inquatation.
But I have never thrown any of it away and it should be in my primary waste drum.
I am planning to harvest this material soon, mostly Silver chloride and other insoluble compounds. with some metals.
I have run test lots and can recover everything but the rhodium.
Seeing as rhodium at £8,610 an ounce I am considering that may be a good portion of its value.
How are you at least recovering rhodium so you can come to a ruff idea of a value?
Or is it necessary to just get it into an alloy and send that to J-M (matthey.com)for an assay?