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Where the metal hides.

Whatever you make, you are already paying to have this taken away. Some of it is worth more than the invoice for removing it.

SEMICONDUCTOR

Where semiconductor assembly loses gold and palladium.

Copper lead frame strip, stamped and plated, on a stainless steel tray

A lead frame strip, before it is trimmed into individual packages.

Assembly and test lines run lead frames and finished packages past you every day. The gold or palladium sits as a thin plated layer on the leads and bond pads, not as bulk metal, so it never looks like much on its own.

It gets missed because reject trays and package waste are usually priced as scrap copper, or binned outright, and nobody weighs the precious layer separately before that happens.

The first step is a tray. Send us your rejected lead frames or IC packages, we check them against our waste acceptance criteria, and you get a number back.

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS

What a board line throws away without weighing it.

Tray of rejected integrated circuits and printed circuit board fragments

Board fragments and rejected packages, sorted for assay.

A board line produces etchant, rinse water and offcuts or rejected boards. Gold sits on the connector fingers and ENIG pads, and copper runs through the whole board.

Most of it is treated as something to dispose of, priced by what it costs to get rid of rather than by what is in it. The rinse water in particular is rarely tested for what it carries.

Send us a sample of the rinse water and a handful of board fragments. We test both and tell you whether either is worth collecting properly.

ELECTROPLATING

What a spent bath is still worth.

Grey metallic dross and flakes in a stainless steel tray

Metal dross, the kind collected when a bath or tank is cleaned out.

Plating and surface finishing lines run baths that carry gold, silver or palladium, depending on what they are finishing. Rinse tanks pick up more of it, and dross collects wherever a bath is filtered or a tank is cleaned out.

A bath is usually run and topped up as a routine cost. When it is finally retired, it gets handled as waste and priced by disposal cost, not by what is dissolved in it.

Send us a sample of the spent bath or a scoop of the dross. We check it against our criteria and tell you what it is worth.

JEWELLERY AND PRECIOUS METALS

What is sitting in your sweeps and dross.

Metal filings and sweepings collected in a small dish for assay

Bench sweepings, the kind that collect in a drawer for years.

Workshops generate bench sweeps off the floor and bench, polishing dust caught in the extraction filter, casting dross, and worn-out or broken findings. It is almost always gold or silver, sometimes platinum.

Small amounts get swept into a bag and left in a drawer, because nobody has assayed them, or they get sold to a buyer who quotes by eye rather than a measured reading.

Send us the bag. We assay it and settle on a measured weight, not a guess.

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