voidforged
Well-known member
Hey all, I was given a small lot of material a little while back and I am just now looking into processing it, as its not the usual type of material I take. Its a steel 5 gallon bucket full of what was described to me as a mix of "mid-high grade" boards, chips, and other material that had visible gold. Don't ask me why they just pyrolyzed everything at once instead of parting out and processing everything in its respective groups, I don't know why and the individual who gave me the lot just said they didn't know any better and lost interest in the project. I'm stuck on the best way to break this material down as its too large of a volume to incinerate all at once, and I don't have a ball mill or crusher to smash it down and pan it out to separate it. I don't want to buy a mill for this as I'd likely only use it for this one lot, and wet-ashing is out of the question for me. I do have access to a fabrication shop and can weld up stuff as needed, but again it would be for this lot only so I don't really want to use up too many of their materials. Maybe a manual ore crusher type device?