Iridium Ore for Sale 44% guaranteed

[FossilRock]

Where is this text copied from?
Electric arc smelting is actually plasma melting and have high capacity.
Usually on a thick slab of water cooled Copper.

I'm not in a position to make any assessment on the text that is given, there has to be more than this.
It is in may ways moot anyway.
The only assay method that is considered good for PGMs are Nickel Sulfide (NiS) assays.
A standard fire assay with cupelling are good for Gold and Silver, it will collect some of the PGMs, like Pd and Pt but as Lead is a poor collector for Rh it may leave some behind.

How it behaves in collecting and keeping Ir, I do not know, but it says Os and Ru evaporates for a large part.
But as Os has a melting point at 3000 C and Ru at 2300 C it seem odd that they evaporate unless the Oxygen and low vapor pressure play a role.

I thank you for the Nickel Sulfide test recommendation, and to be perfectly honest, that is what I had hoped you would recommend. It's honest. Ehat would you recommend as the best collector for rhodium and iridium? Individually if there are different collectors suggested?

 

[Yggdrasil]

I thank you for the Nickel Sulfide test recommendation, and to be perfectly honest, that is what I had hoped you would recommend. It's honest. Ehat would you recommend as the best collector for rhodium and iridium? Individually if there are different collectors suggested?

For Ir I do not know, but for Rh the best is Gold but it is prohibitively expensive.
Copper is a good number two as far as I have been able to find.

 

[FossilRock]

For Ir I do not know, but for Rh the best is Gold but it is prohibitively expensive.
Copper is a good number two as far as I have been able to find.

Thank you, and best regards.

 

[bingflash]

The sad fact is that while almost all rocks have iridium at some atom level, only in a few places on earth is it economically feasible to go after these. The same is true for the rest of the PGMs.

@44% iridium in the ground, it will invariably have similar amounts of osmium and less amounts of the sister metals in attendance. That's just how the geology works on this planet. I've processed 44% Ir material that came out of the ground but it was osmiridium. I've posted before here on how much fun that was.

I agree, you know it is FALSE when Os is missing...

 

[Yggdrasil]

Then please be respectful to all members new or old. Thanks.

Adding to this.
Respecting members, also includes give the information members need, which sometimes is not the same as what they want.
Some members becomes quite agitated or insulted when you give them information that shatters their dreams or perception.

Science are what it is and neither chemistry or geology have any feelings or compliance for what our members want.
It is what it is and do what it does,
the only thing we can do, is to coach the conditions in which we treat these things, so we can come closer to the result we want.

And some times it needs comprehensive studies to achieve this.
Or significant resources.

 

[otto]

The sad fact is that while almost all rocks have iridium at some atom level, only in a few places on earth is it economically feasible to go after these. The same is true for the rest of the PGMs.

@44% iridium in the ground, it will invariably have similar amounts of osmium and less amounts of the sister metals in attendance. That's just how the geology works on this planet. I've processed 44% Ir material that came out of the ground but it was osmiridium. I've posted before here on how much fun that was.

where did you get your osmiridium Lou. i have samples from Tasmania