Hello from Denver!

[netgeek3]

Hello, folks. My name is Fred McCoy, and I am the CEO of New American Mining Company, based in Castle Rock, Colorado. We are a fully integrated E-Waste & ITAD shop with in-house recovery and refining. I have spent the last 40 years in the IT world, building data centers and running an ITAD company. My background is in chemical engineering and I am also a working musician. I have ADHD, so serial entrepreneurship has been a godsend for me and a natural extension of my otherwise annoying habits.

Been lurking here for a few years and finally thought I'd introduce myself. Been recovering gold and other PMs as a hobby for 20 years, and the opportunity presented itself last year to scale this thing up. It has been one heck of any education going from working out of my barn to processing over 100 tons a month at the moment, and we are projecting a run rate of 10 tons/day by summer, with much more demand for our services than we are ready for right now.

I also mine (both placer and hard rock), and have recently done my first river dredging expedition. I'm amazed my wife still puts up with me....

I have learned so much from Butcher, Orvi and others, I can't tell you. Getting back to my roots in ChemE has been challenging, but it's coming back to me. You guys all completely rock, and I am indebted to you for your willingness to share your depth of understanding of this world. There are simply no comparable resources that I've ever found.

 

[nickvc]

Hello Fred and welcome to the forum .
Im sure you will have plenty to share as a professional refiner that I’m sure many will find interesting from pictures of what you refine to perhaps some of your set up unless you have some things which you prefer to keep to yourself.
As you know if you have any questions we have a good active base of knowledgable members who are glad to help.

 

[marliedog17]

Hello Fred, my name is Joe, I live in Denver and come from iT as well. Spent 20 years there starting with managing infrastructure for a 300mm manufacturing line with a very big blue corp and ended as principal consultant for an enterprise application with a very big red corp. I’ve been working with various types of liquidations for a few years now. I’m new to this refining business, I’m really here just to learn a bit more do than anything else as I’ve been building a little stockpile of e-waste. I also have some good connections for jewelry, mostly liquidated from estates or store closings. I would be interested in talking with you about doing some business if you would be. Send me me a or I’ll reach out when I get a chance. Thanks!

 

[kensun]

I am also in denver, a small electronics recycling company.