Refiners only pay for primary gold or primary platinum in raw ingots, never "gold plus PGMs"
Most PGM Refiners are located overseas & NOW take 6 months or more to get $70,000+ back to each recycler.
That's right...their minimum quantities of 50oz or more...is tying up $70,000 of YOUR cash flow just to do business with them!
Part of the reason refiners have gotten off scot-free with their greedy grabs of your profits is clearly due to "hush-hush, metallurgicaly sound, refining secrets" carefully maintained on global scale. Primarily platinum refiners are an exclusive, ellusive group with archane formulas, miles of pipes, gigantic furnaces, and many secretive manufacturing projects underway in another part of the very same refinery!! This has been true since UK scientist Wollaston figured out (circa 1820) how to extract and work with smuggled URAL's platinum. These "secret processes" were only revealed on Wollaston's deathbed in 1828! His pioneering work set the stage for routine secrecy practices shrouding the platinum refining industry to this current day.
Platinum group metals are scarce to begin with. Russia's manipulative government controls THE MAJORITY of "now you see it/no, you don't " annual platinum supply releases from their gigantic Norlisk mine in Siberia.
I've got a confession to make: about 2 years ago, I broke down and bought Ammens' newly re-released Plat Processing book from an eBay internet reseller who is so darned proud to offer it. The same critical facts regarding times, temperatures, grams of lixiviants to be used in benefication, etc.,
first. Now, would you small footprint guys like to tell me how excited you are to hear the esteemed Ammens' wants you to be heating (AND breathing???) lead fumes, especially torch generated, even IF you could guess the rest of the his missing details?
I was flabbergasted to read Ammens' talking like that! But, then I remembered why Ammens wrote his kit in the first place. It wasn't to teach the readers, it was to report test results on military scrap, to the government overseers who cut his paycheck.
Taking to lead is an enormously expensive, budget-busting, time-consuming, UNNECCESSARY step.
CHECK THIS OUT!!!

This data comes from a 1995 Govt commissioned report.
I put in the current prices so you could do the math,
pick the best, most available scrap, and leave the rest!
and there's the extra $$$$ you'd like to make these next 12 months from doing what I teach.
This should be right up you guys' alley...military scrap of the highest order!!!
PRE-1995 DECOMMISSIONED WEAPONs from the US Military!
start to finish, at $38/oz cost.
Ammen's can't make that claim, not with taking it to lead first!!! NO WAY, NO HOW!!!
There is NO cyanide used in my processes either. NEVER HAS BEEN!
The much touted by some eBayers government report on Platinum Refining Using Cyanide
concludes cyanide processing of platinum is NOT economical either. In fact, it is so uneconomical,
commercial operation size equipment to perform Platinum extraction based on that report
using extremely high temperature cyanide
has never been commercially produced nor a single lab sized nor commercial sized unit sold.
The theory has only been tested in a government sponsored, US taxpayer-pays-the-tab laboratory,
on a single 20 gram sample...and then cyanide method was RULED OUT!
That is the ultimate conclusion of that government study!
Mostly the entrepreneurial Platinum Bullion Scrap Recycler has been --and still is-- left-out of the metallurgical loop for far too darned long.
NO MORE!! I've done my part to lift THIS SILLY SHROUD OF SECRECY
and SILLY Misinformation re: Cyanide & Platinum
Precious metals recyclers & Platinum Placer Nugget finders: YOU NOW have another choice---
THERE IS A BETTER WAY to get $$ for MORE of your raw OR recycled metal content from your small footprint operations!!!
I reveal this "other option" in the newest edition of my book,
Platinum Recycling Made Easy
There are plenty detailed, illustrated procedural steps for TESTING FOR SPECIFICALLY 5 precious metals
7 pages of detailed PGM lists of scrap by end user application in SEVEN categories
All this just to serve as your treasure map --yes, in my PLATINUM RECYCLING kit
including 15 full color photos of over 3 dozen items I've found platinum in and on---
in $$--PROFITABLE--$$ recoverable amounts!!
And PGM bearing items are grouped by specific categories,
including their usages in most instances.
These details--not available anywhere else but in MY book--
(nope, not even in Ammens' 50 year old nor his newer reprint release reference!!)
MY details
give YOU a POWERFUL ADVANTAGE
in being the first to locate, accumulate, personally liberate these valuable white metals.
Use MY lists to shop here, or eBay, or eBid, or any number of other auctions for cheap platinum at great prices!!!
Here's what prospectors hunt for in their panning
ACTUAL SIZE!!!!!!!

Now compare above actual panning results--a few troy grains--to my actual recycling results photographed below...several troy ounces!!!
Yes, these are my ACTUAL SIZE RESULTS!!!

and here's one of my pure platinum buttons with the trademark "pipe" effect in its top!

YES!!! You can do what I do, because I teach you how!
There are MANY MANY items
besides the well-known automotive catalytic converter (only 25% of annual platinum consumption
to hunt for and profit from Platinum Group Metals' contents!
Here's a recent Q&A from my email box regarding catalytic converters:
Question: "How much platinums are in catalytic converters?"
Answer:
"Thanks for asking about some rules of thumb for catalytic converter yield calculations. Buy my new book and get started! Mine is the new millenium C/C biz-model. Take the "FREE Cat Quiz" in my other ebay ad description!!
To hit the high spots...US domestic C/C yields between 20oz - 50oz to the TON of converter innards acc'd to industry experts
be they old C/C pellets innards or newer, higher loaded, standard-flow, honeycomb C/C matrix innards.
Foreign C/C are a different animal
and yield MUCH higher... some of them run much as 80oz - 100oz per ton.
Those are your "rules of thumb" a.k.a. guidelines
Let me break it down for you this way: --according to my email "inbox"
I can teach you to beat the other C/C recyclers at their own game with the facts! Get your hot off the presses kit, Keep the PLATS from the CATS for YOURSELF!!!
These are details which only YOU will know
based upon YOUR record keeping and charting your test results
per make and year of vehicle PLUS noting honeycomb or pellets.
Since you will be shown how to build that type database in my manual, you'll have a specific database of your own in a very short length of time.
You can't beat a personal database--built according to my guidelines-- as it is pure platinum to YOU
It's NOT something you will be willing to reveal.
That is YOUR edge in bidding/buying converters.
I can also tell you that C/C PGM applications are again being sputtered on THICKER
not thinner
as each model year cycles through, due to the more stringent US and GLOBAL enviro guidelines
forced upon Detroit to Daimler car makers, as well as required of diesel burners on the European continent and in Asiatic Rim nations!
Did you know that China has just adopted European Clean Air Standards III for Auto Emissions in the last several months??
AYUP!!! Stand back, miners and scrappers...the price of PGMs is a goin' even higher!!!!!!!!!
So, assuming these average recycling guys are cheap,
and only seeking a 100% return goal on their "investment" --
we're talking about only acquiring and processing
as few as 6 or 7
(at market price of $1,150 -ish/oz Pt),
which would ALSO cover your time, and expenses as well
PLUS net you 1 oz of Pt, @ $1,150+/oz
.........or..........
as few as 24 C/Cs if they are purely coated with Palladium
and most are coated with alloy of both PGMs PLUS a Rhodium kicker.)
HERE'S THE NEWEST ADDITIONAL TO MY INFO DATABASE!!!

Now, AIN'T THAT PURDY???!!!
Here's the pertinent report from an independent and very reputable analytical lab
who conducted an Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy on the sample, per ASTM E 1508-98
at 25kV test on the above pictured honeycomb.
PSThis independent 3rd party test is why this biscuit is in 2 chunks...they took their test sample out of the INSIDE!
While this test is QUALITATIVE in reported results,
said EDX test is customarily within a +/- 3% range of accuracy
compared to a quantitative ICP-AAS test.
Wouldn't YOU like to find some of these???!!!

This should get really some of my chatroom buzz going...,
re: my premise the current avg of 7 cats yields 1 troy ounce of PGMs
Great Ghostly Griefers! The numbers above are from just 1 biscuit out of this particular C/C.
Can you multiply? There 2 of those biscuits in that CC!!
Do I tell you what this one came from in my kit? NOPE! Sorry!!
But, I AM here to tell you, this STEP BY STEP PGM chemistry

from this PLAT Kit I'm offering in this auction
is the REAL deal.
I will say this in closing:
You are spending approx 1/5th oz of Pt. to purchase this Platinum Recycling Made Easy kit!
Sky's the limit--income wise--for you after BUY-IT-NOW!!!
This is a no brainer, regardless of your day job.
Looking forward to having you join the PLAT recycling family!
OH, and C/C are NOT the only PGM bearing car part
you should be grabbing as you snag those converters...
most guys aren't even grabbing these OBDII oxygen sensors and other parts at no cost or only cents extra per vehicle unit recycled!!"
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These industry STATISTICS available Feb 2003.
Total usage of Pd in auto catalysts to date is 36 million ounces.
About 30,000,000-- that's 30 MILLION oz-- has been used since 1992
and only 1.9 mil/oz has been recovered to date.
With an average vehicle life of 15 years,
recovered Pd will rise from the present 290,000 ounces in 1992
to 600,000 ounces by 2008
and to 4 million ounces a year ten years from now, in 2013!
These 600,000 recovered Palladium ounces will represent about 40% of demand by that 2013 time.
A similar volume of Platinum has been used in catalytic converters in the past.
But with recycling having started in Pt.
a decade earlier than Pd,
11.7 million ounces has already been recovered and is estimated to level off down the line at about 1.3 million ounces a year.
Excited? Here's More...
In addition to my personally autographed Platinum Recycling Made Easy
AND a few "genuine PGM bullion scrap practice searching for" samples items,
are these 3 valuable FREE bonuses:
1)-- Step-by-step Instructions to test for and then how to scale up and bulk process in YOUR stuff
2)-- A small, portable test stand --exact replica of mine-- for you to use in conducting these simple tests
3)-- 2 PROPER test precipitants to get the CORRECT ANSWERS YOU DESERVE the 1st Time and every time you test!!
My COTP Proprietary Formula is NOW provided in detail in the appendix. This is an extra powerful aid in dissolving the coveted metals in shorter time frame.
This was written solely
to help level the playing field for the small footprint PLATINUM recycler or prospector
who wants to do this high-profit margin recycling
safely, sanely
and very profitably!!!
Here's another example of my "before" and "after"

STOP your PLATINUM from lining greedy toll refiners' pockets!
Don't let them charge you for them keeping what is rightfully yours!!!
I recently got this testimonial from a customer of mine who lives in Europe.
He wrote and told me that one of Europe's major PGM refiners was only paying 45% on PLATINUM, and nothing on Palladium and Rhodium in the same shipment!!!
WHAT A RIP!!!
GUYS, listen up here...you have to segregate these metals to get your proper profits!!!!

Choose between torch waving voodoo amateurs ("borax method only")

who only get out SOME gold -- from their scrap gold efforts
using the so-called "poorman's nitric" dissolved fertilizer goopy soupy slop
NOW you understand why it is called "poorman's nitric"!!!
You're poorer after you cook up some than when you started out!
That ridiculous mixture doesn't get out all the gold,
and leaves them even "poorer men" than when they started!
And it's worse, when they try the same slop on Platinum Group Metals processes!
There are no shortcuts to good metallurgical science. NONE!
Proper, metallurgical ways get values out profitably...no "poorman bad science taught here!!"
NOT by me!!!
PULL OUT FOR REAL, 5 INDIVIDUAL and SEPARATE precious metals instead of "just gold."
And I do all this at very low cost of UNDER $38 per troy ounce total--
ayup...for all FIVE!!!
You will NEVER pull significant, profitable amounts of Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Iridium etc.,
and only retrieve SOME of your dissolved gold
from any solution you clobber with UREA!!!
So, do yourself a great big favor--and DON'T---DO NOT--- USE UREA
You will only end up with insoluble compounds which tie up your precious metals
and you'll lose money--significant profitable results!!!
Also, ASK yourself: "Why off-gas gold from direct hot torch flame contact?"
OR "Why lose gold globules in firebrick crevices?"
WHY!!!! When you can have GOLD PLUS!!! Yes, plus 4 more precious platinum group metals?
Think about what recovering 5 precious metals could do to your bottom line in YOUR scrapping out precious metals/home workshop business??

If you recognize and discard any or most of the items in these pictures
then YOU ARE NOT capturing nor getting paid for Platinum Group Metals in your recycling!!
Wise Up -- PLUG the Platinum Profit Leak!!!!!!
START GETTING PAID FOR Platinum Group Metals in YOUR scrap!!!
Or in your blacksands concentrates!
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I began my "cheap gold" pursuit in the much easier scrap gold recycling field. I proved gold scrappers could keep costs for discoverying/recovering discarded 24Kt scrap gold under $20/oz!! Those details are inside the 109+ pages of my widely acclaimed first book/kit, Thrift Store Prospecting, a consistent seller for many years and continuting to educate hundreds to this very day.
Initially advertised only in gold trade magazines and via my personal GPAA trade shows exhibitor demonstrations, eventually NY Times-Sunday Business Section-Front Page picked up and published--in color--my gold recycling story. It has spread from NY to San Jose then to Bahama's and from there, overseas where I now have readers in 26 different countries. Now the internet provides the best outreach for my true story, thanks to my publisher--Pen Press who sponsors my public seminars and classes.
If you can't attend one of my classes or seminars, consider Buy-it-Now
Manual, Platinum Bullion Scrap Samples, Test Stand, proper ppts. for testing
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Platinum Recycling Made Easy
only $194.95
Combined Shipping, Handling, & Required Insurance TO USA ADDRESSES =$13.00 due to the bulky free bonuses included above. I love questions and have 19 years "gold recycling" teaching track record of providing great answers! For the first time EVER, I'm now willing to answer the Platinum Group Metals question you have, also. You want to know something before you buy? Then ASK ME!!! Since this is a kit with consumables--that means actual platinum bullion scrap items which are sold and included in this product serves as practice samples--you can learn identification, collection, harvesting, resale and/or refining using these actual consumable bullion items, there are no refunds/returns/exchanges offered. Yes, I still personally autograph non-restockable kits.
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