6 Sep
2011
6 Sep
'11
8:24 p.m.
wait what?
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> wrote:
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:
who
> On 9/4/11 10:56 PM, Ian King wrote:
>>
>> 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.
This fleabay auction, 270808374360 claims to have backplane parts for
palladium metal scrap value, by the way, someone else mentioned rhodium, 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