On Apr 7, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Al Anger wrote:
FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
gold recovery, I wonder how this is done and if it is worth it ?.
In the early eighties, I remodeled a good size, two story building
called The Miami Postal Credit Union into a gold and silver
recovery and
refining plant for a company called IMC, Intercontinental Medals Corp.
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any questions?
Very cool pics, thanks for sharing!!
Details are sketchy, but in the 80s my dad's publishing company used
to do typesetting and some printing for making books (we didn't do
the actual mass printings, just for in house usage, and creation of
the master copies).
Anyway, I don't really remember what most of the hardware was, but we
had some mainframe type things whose name escapes me at the moment
(had BIG tape spools), that connected to some sort of film processing
unit (big!)--it spit out pages of film that you then had to take over
to another unit that bathed it in chemicals and i guess developed it.
(all this done in a darkroom)
At some point in the mix (the development machine I guess) there was
a "silver reprocessor" unit that dealt with the waste chemicals and
extracted silver out of it.
All that stuff was scrapped probably 15-20 years ago--i think my dad
kept the silver reprocessor though, as it was the only smallish
thing. (unless somebody through it through one of our windows--i
think that might have happened at some point :p)
Scott
