6 Sep
2011
6 Sep
'11
8:17 p.m.
I wonder what a Q-7 would be worth in scrap....
Here's a relatively new twist- I just lost a very nice local Unibus
system because the owner was worried about "environmental liability",
and they wanted it properly scraped. I've seen this several times now.
Paul
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:59 PM, jim s <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
On 9/4/11
10:56 PM, Ian King wrote:
This fleabay auction, 270808374360 claims to have backplane parts for
palladium metal scrap value, by the way, someone else mentioned rhodium, who
knows what else in the parts as well.
With gold as the leading metal these days if someone gets hold of it the
cheapest scrapping process is cyanide for gold, and I doubt that the other
rare earths and metals are looked for. ?They are pretty tricky to pull out
of the mess that remains after a cyanide high grading process w/o killing
ones' self.
A lot of the ones I knew had places "somewhere" which they went with their
scrap, and they powdered the material and did the process. ?I suspect the
residue cyanide was and is dumped near that spot. ?If one tries that in a
legal method, I don't know if you'd make any money after you pay the costs
of doing it in such a way as not to kill yourself, and legally dispose of
the residue.
We cleaned a lab in Newport Beach legally (where one list member works) and
for about 15# of alcohol and acids it cost around $4500 for the disposal.
Each 55 gallon drum disposal was around $500 for low grade stuff (material
which was not things you could dump down the sink, but could put in a
disposal drum and not kill people).
obviously people extract gold value, but I always found that those who did
so to be pretty slimy folk (the actual metal extraction people). ?Walked
funny and talked with a slur, and worried about black helicopters following
them.
Jim
more people will realize that the old accounting system that's been
taking up room in the back
of the warehouse may be worth more than metal
scrap
With gold over $1000/oz, has anyone figured out what the real scrap value
of something like a 7090
or 360 currently is for the copper and precious metals?
That is what you're fighting against, and it has been the same since the
70's.
If anyone notices the amount of copper and gold in an old box in the back
room, it is gone.