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[medo]

Name : Vlatko
Sex : Male
Age : 30
Location : Croatia
Profession : Mining Engineer
Hobbies : Fishing and making things
Interests : Everything
What are you looking for in our community? : Exchange of knowledge
How did you discover our Forum? : google

I just started working in a recycling plant for WEE, and discovered a lot of PM that are not being recycled.
I have a masters degree in mining engineering and I am familiar with all the mechanical and chemical methods for upgrading materials, but because my country doesn't have any gold deposits my schooling was mostly on rock mining. I have been reading this forum for a few days now and just wanted to introduce myself.
Hello everybody!

 

[nickvc]

Medco welcome to the forum.
Your in for a real education here if you read all the advised matter. Take the guided tour and read the saftey section that should get you off to a decent start. Download and read C.M.Hoke it will give you a good basis for understanding the forum and it's many threads.
Whether your company ever actually refines or not you can learn where and what has values and separate those parts to send for refining and hopefully gain some praise for making your company some extra revenue.
I wish you luck and look forward to hearing which direction your studies will lead you.

 

[donpuncy]

Hi Everyone It is my great pleasure to meet you all. I would firstly like to congratulate all of you for venturing and pursing your dreams Secondly, I would like to wish you all a fantastic day

Name : Sandro Sparta
Sex : Male
Age : 31
Location : Italy
Profession : Renaissance Man
Hobbies : Everything that is fun
Interests : Almost everything
How long have you been refining gold or have interest in precious metals? : Actually planing on venturing in sector
What are you looking for in our community? : Assistance if possible and always open to new ideas
How did you discover our Forum? : Actually, by pure luck. It as very hard to come across this forum

 

[frank seip]

hi guys another newbie here, im a retired guy,been placer mining for about 40 yrs in wyo Colorado Arizona Nevada Idaho ya ive kicked about some,worked for Newmont mining and barrack goldstrike on the carlin trend in nv for about ten yrs, so im not new to metals,am new to scrapping as I am currently kinda stuck in texas,thought I would get into this for awhile.and see what happens.only joined last nite and have already learned a lot! thanks seems like a lot of great people here,if I can be of any help just ask as I say ive kicked around the rocky mountains for 63 yrs now and know my way around pretty good and have a lot of experience placer mining, as well as commercial large scale,both surface and underground,anyways thanks for having me,take care frank.

 

[justme2]

Michael c. Wier
Male
70
Panama city Fl.
pretty much done it all.
Urban Minor or working. at what I want.
staying alive as long as I can. Helping others when I can.
Just started, still learning.
learning. " When you stop learning, you just gave up on life." mcw
Been a member about 2 years but lost my password had to rejoin, cost me a small fortune in gold scrap I sold to others.
Found you on Scrapmetalforum.com where I'm known as "olddude" which was my original here.

Wife 50 yrs, been married 30 years, son,20, daughter 12.

 

[cosmicnur]

Hello my name is cosmicnur aged 55 from Edinburgh Scotland , I am a handyman and have never done and refining before , my hobbies are physics , chemistry , philosophy , metaphysics , Scottish history , spirituality, politics , history, global eco issues , energy , photography , radio,growing food , driving , hillwalking , I am dyslexic and cannot write very well therefore could not sit and pass any exams throughout my life. I found your excellent forum a couple of weeks ago and I am amazed by high level of knowledge and quality of your members work in this field. I am devoting a minimum of 20 hours per week studying your recommended reading starting with your free master-work by C. C. HOKE . A thousand thanks for this opportunity to learn such a valuable and practical skill. SLAINTE .

Conviction alone is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. Thomas Carlyle , Eccelfechan , Scotland C 1850

 

[butcher]

cosmicnur,

Welcome to the forum. I see from your interest you have no trouble learning things that interest you, this is not much different. if you are interested, and wish to learn it you can, although there is not much in life worth learning that is easy to learn, but anyone who wishes to learn and is willing to do the work needed, there is nothing He cannot learn if he puts his mind to it.

This is a fascinating field of study, you will never learn it all, but you can have a lot of satisfaction from trying to, it is not hard to learn but does take time and work. I think this is something you will really enjoy, I look forward to seeing you learn this art, and sharing with us what you learn. I also look forward to sharing with you what I learn, this way we both help each other in this fascinating field of study.

Welcome to the forum, the best place in the world to learn this ancient art.

 

[antinnel]

Newbie From Spain i have first experiment failed and enter here for help.Good forum and i am sure here will find the answers and the resources to help me

 

[FujiGoldOne]

Name : Daniel
Sex : Male
Age : 38
Location : Sweden
Profession : Work in a stable,mostly with reapairs and stuff.
Hobbies : Collecting old vinyl techno and trance records
Interests : Movies and music
What are you looking for in our community? : Information and adivise in different catagories of materials and in the end someone to do some refining for me
How did you discover our Forum? : google

Will most likely never do any refining myself,i use the forum as a source of information about how,where to get material,how to sort it properly and general good advise in finding/collecting material.
I´m a first time collector so to say,never had anything refined before but i have my own little pile of rounded off Cpu´s,chips,smd´s,pins,mobile phone board and at the current moment i have 70-100 kg of mixed end connectors that i´m picking up for free from a copper granulate buisness Ok its every sort of connectors from all kind of wires but if ther´s 20 kg usefull stuff its a win for me,counting gas for picking it up.

Thats my 2 cents intruduction.

 

[Justincase]

If you like the old wheels of steel have a listen to http://www.mixcloud.com/justinbaker96930/justin-the-headcase-one-of-the-best/
One of my old promotions before the scene was closed down .
Still have my little 28k personal stereo tho and do complete 1210 rebuilds when I find the poor old girls in a bad way.
That and P.M.R. are my two passions,apart from improvised engineering and high end fabrication.
Just

 

[Long Shot]

Name : Jeff Brooks
Sex : Male
Age : 52
Location : Belleville Ontario CAN - east of Toronto
Profession : Water Treatment Operator
Hobbies : Electronics (particularly tube amps), Alcohol racing trucks, Guitar, others.
Interests : May have undiagnosed ADD, too many to mention!
How long have you been refining gold or have interest in precious metals? : Lifetime interest, just beginning to enter the practice.
What are you looking for in our community? : Education on the art
How did you discover our Forum? : Have viewed it in the past through search engines but was recently recommended as "The Place" by a recent acquaintance.
Comment: You have many excellent resources and will do my best to try not and ask questions "of entitlement".

 

[butcher]

Jeff,
Welcome to the forum, If this interest you, then you have found the right place to learn this art.

 

[Camebro]

Welcome In guys
Present your self to the rest of the community, feel free to add things

Name : Cameron
Sex : male
Age : 25
Location : Scottish Borders
Profession : electrical engineer
Hobbies : gold panning
Interests : metallurgy, chemistry, football and history.
How long have you been refining gold or have interest in precious metals? : complete novice at refining but always held an interest in precious metals and stones.
What are you looking for in our community? : to learn and contribute.
How did you discover our Forum? : stumbled upon it

 

[bocahgila]

Name : M. Fikry
Sex : Male
Age : 27
Location : Jakarta, Indonesia
Profession : as of now a junior Gold miner
Hobbies : Football, Reading
Interests : Networking Tech, History, Geology
How long have you been refining gold? : Haven't started yet
What are you looking for in our community? : processing low grade ore and refining gold.
How did you discovered our Forum? : Google!
Other : I am so very excited to finally find such an incredible forum where I can learn a lot from very vast source of knowledgeable resources. Hope I can learn as many as possible and put in a practice and as well sharing it to the people in this forum

 

[g_axelsson]

Hello M. Fikry and welcome to the forum. I hope you will find what you are looking for here. When it comes to refining this is the best place to find information on the internet.

A small advice, put Indonesia into the location in your profile, then people wouldn't assume you live in USA when answering questions. Some brand names and laws differ around the globe.

Göran

 

[bocahgila]

Hello M. Fikry and welcome to the forum. I hope you will find what you are looking for here. When it comes to refining this is the best place to find information on the internet.

A small advice, put Indonesia into the location in your profile, then people wouldn't assume you live in USA when answering questions. Some brand names and laws differ around the globe.

Göran

Yup I hope so , I put in the location already, Thanks for your advice Goran

 

[greg.starke]

Name : Greg
Sex : Frequently (Male)
Age : 34
Location : Northern Virginia
Profession : SAP Basis Consultant (day job) - server parts specialist (side business)
Hobbies : Coach softball - drive abandon country roads - sex
Interests : computers - cars - women - money
How long have you been refining gold or have interest in precious metals? : I am a newb. I am getting into this as I realize that I may be missing out with the amount of boards that I am scrapping in my server parts business.
What are you looking for in our community? : Ideas, how to's, help when I reach road blocks, to become an active member and return the favor as I get better at it.
How did you discover our Forum? : Came across is as I was researching how to extract precious metals from circuit boards.

 

[Songbirdia]

Name :Mary Thompson
Sex : Female
Age : 63
Location : Central Iowa, USA
Profession : Retired teacher
Hobbies : Stained Glass, Ceramics, painting, recycled items for Art, Secondlife, Zentangle
Interests : Learning scrapping while working at my son's computer repair store, Religion (Christian), Photoshop, Working with youth
How long have you been refining gold or have interest in precious metals? : 4 months
What are you looking for in our community? : Safe instructions and tips
How did you discover our Forum? : Google
I am willing to read and learn on my own and will ask questions when I have exhausted my search for an answer.

 

[Palladium]

Welcome to the forum Mary!

 

[medicineman]

name philip freeman
sex male
age 54
occ welder
hobby herbs, caving, panning, beekeeping, grandkiding
interested in learning this work with the pm's. not planning to work with scrap as i have 30+ years of cons to go through.
reading hokes book [great book] and some post. I don't type much.
wanted to offer my thanks to those who have and are making this sight work and thanks for letting me download the books.
philip