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I have been researching the potential for refining scrap with a hammer mill/shaker table setup like mount baker mining and metals make.
It seems to me that if I had a good business plan and could find a grant/loan of about $50k-$60k USD I could have all the machinery setup and enough money to buy 2-20 tons of material to run through. I currently believe I would pay that loan back quickly.
I would like to have land and a truck before I seek that money from elsewhere, so currently I am getting that going and preparing a business plan.
If I focuses just on copper I could buy bulk electric motors, transformers and such, but with electronics PCB boards it seems from what I have researched the material coming out of the shaker table is copper/gold mixed.
I don't want to refine with any chemicals, I just want to have a business model where I shred/process/lift/move the weight, dispose/sell of tailings/fibre glass waste properly and avoid dealing with chemicals.
If you have enough of this copper/aluminium/brass/gold mix are there buyers paying decent prices for this out there? That would be selling to a refinery correct?
Would I be looking at selling to a major refinery or a smaller operation? Both? I have never had enough metals that big scrap players want to deal with me, and I want to get to the point they will.
How much powder would I need before they would talk to me? Probably something like 1 ton or so yes? So 500lbs copper per 2,200 lbs computer scrap and 3-11 oz gold with other trace minerals would mean after processing 3-5 metric tons of PCB boards/ram/etc would yield 1 ton of powder. 200-400lbs an hour means I should be able to run at least 1 ton a week no problem.
Anyone doing a business where they sell this semi refined powder off a shaker table?
I have been poking around this forum all day and will continue doing so. Lots of great info here. Seems like a lot of info about chemical refining, but I would like to avoid the cost/disposal of this and try and process to a marketable product through mechanical separation.
Thanks,
It seems to me that if I had a good business plan and could find a grant/loan of about $50k-$60k USD I could have all the machinery setup and enough money to buy 2-20 tons of material to run through. I currently believe I would pay that loan back quickly.
I would like to have land and a truck before I seek that money from elsewhere, so currently I am getting that going and preparing a business plan.
If I focuses just on copper I could buy bulk electric motors, transformers and such, but with electronics PCB boards it seems from what I have researched the material coming out of the shaker table is copper/gold mixed.
I don't want to refine with any chemicals, I just want to have a business model where I shred/process/lift/move the weight, dispose/sell of tailings/fibre glass waste properly and avoid dealing with chemicals.
If you have enough of this copper/aluminium/brass/gold mix are there buyers paying decent prices for this out there? That would be selling to a refinery correct?
Would I be looking at selling to a major refinery or a smaller operation? Both? I have never had enough metals that big scrap players want to deal with me, and I want to get to the point they will.
How much powder would I need before they would talk to me? Probably something like 1 ton or so yes? So 500lbs copper per 2,200 lbs computer scrap and 3-11 oz gold with other trace minerals would mean after processing 3-5 metric tons of PCB boards/ram/etc would yield 1 ton of powder. 200-400lbs an hour means I should be able to run at least 1 ton a week no problem.
Anyone doing a business where they sell this semi refined powder off a shaker table?
I have been poking around this forum all day and will continue doing so. Lots of great info here. Seems like a lot of info about chemical refining, but I would like to avoid the cost/disposal of this and try and process to a marketable product through mechanical separation.
Thanks,