Non-Chemical New Refiner moving from studies to refining

[luckypyrate]

Hey all and thank you for making this board such a success! I have been reading studiously these posts, Hoke's books, and other sources and have just received the materials I ordered to begin the process. I am very excited, though much more cautious now than since interest first sparked in this, after all the reading and googling and the like. I feel like it was kind of silly that I was reading and reading and reading and never formerly introduced myself so, "HI!". I look forward to sharing my experiences and trials, tribulations, failures and successes, and grow in the field of refining and urban panning as it were. Thanks again to all who have helped me get this far and for making this board so accessible and exciting. --JL

 

[butcher]

sounds like you are on your way to some fine gold.

 

[luckypyrate]

Well I have been reading some really great posts here and elsewhere, watching the heck out of steve's and others youtube vids, and reading up on some general chemistry stuff (to include but not limited to safety!) . I was drawn to this idea of recovering gold because of America's floundering $$$ and the need for some kind of value currency when it finally buckles under the pressure. I was getting ready to invest in some gold off the market and then realized I could save a lot of time and reduce the need for mining if I just take from what's already all around me as an IT person. I used to manage a company in NC that was a IT recycling company. We didn't get into any of the gold refining but rather the sorting and tearing apart of the systems. Also did ALOT of hard drive destruction *tear for all that wasted platinum*. Literally several hundred tons a month at times. I am unofficially opening up a new division of my IT company here in Louisiana that will be focusing specifically on salvaging old electronic scrap and taking in eWaste from businesses/users. Hopefully sooner than later I will be able to move into a little bit of a bigger space and I will be able to really dig in as a refining company. I ran across a really cool video on youtube I wanted to share with everyone...the big dog in the market, working at a level we all could only dream of attaining... hopefully I link it properly...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS5G7SxFZkk