Wyoming

[Jimmy]

Hi. Im new to gold and silver but I used to professionally refine copper in south america. But im retired now and have my eye on a tailings pile of an old copper and silver mine near me. Im sure there is silver at least in the tailings. And it anyone has an interesting project, im interested in that too. I still have ball mills, jaw crushers and even a few flotation tanks laying around. I Dont have the foggiest Idea about how to go about working these tailings but Im sure Ill learn lots here.

 

[samuel-a]

Welcome aboard Jimmy

I think we could all agree that copper refining has a lot to do with PM's refining.
Personally i would love to hear more from you on this subject.

Have fun, be safe.

 

[Smack]

There are a bunch of people here that would like to learn more about copper since a lot of the stuff we process is full of it.

 

[Jimmy]

Thanks guys.
Copper isnt difficult to refine. It is much harder to get it from ore to blister copper. What sort of copper are we talking about? Metalic? alloys? Shouldnt be too hard to just electrorefine it.

 

[etack]

Most of my cooper is recovered sponge from waste. Got a 5 gallon bucket full. not sure whats in it but its 95%+ Cu. Was going to lost foam cast it into bars and sell them to my scrapyard try to make it look like extruded the best I could. but I would like to know whats in it. To see if I left any PMs. :lol:

Eric

 

[samuel-a]

Most of my cooper is recovered sponge from waste. Got a 5 gallon bucket full. not sure whats in it but its 95%+ Cu. Was going to lost foam cast it into bars and sell them to my scrapyard try to make it look like extruded the best I could. but I would like to know whats in it. To see if I left any PMs. :lol:

Eric

If you already melting and casting bars, why not try "refine" it... for the anode slimes that is...
The cathode deposite, though not as interesting, will eventually be slightly higher grade Cu than what you started out with.