TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Our customers receive a complete service from Gauteng Refinery. We have developed a step by step refining process to provide you with a best in class service and maximum metal return. From the initial material analysis, we will guide and advise you every step of the way. Strategic alliances with other refineries allow us to source and supply specific precious metals’ compounds that are not produced internally.
FEEDSTOCK
We accept a wide range of feedstock, including but not limited to PGM residues, mining concentrates, jewellery scrap, coins (not Krugerrands), autocatalysts, scrap, printed circuit boards and electronic scrap. All metals are purified to 99,5% plus, and sold either as sponge, granules or bars, depending on customer requirements. A list of the indicative types of materials we accept follows and can also be downloaded here.
INDICATIVE TYPES OF MATERIALS ACCEPTED BY GAUTENG REFINERY
Industry | Material Type | Pt | Pd | Rh | Ru | Ir | Os | Au | Ag | Examples | |
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Chemical | Catalyst intermediates | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Catalyst intermediates, process catalysts | ||
Solutions | ● | ● | ● | Distillation residues | |||||||
Production residues | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Wipes, filter cloths | |||
Consumer | ● | Coins, scrap, jewellery | |||||||||
Dental | Manufacturing & alloy scrap | ● | ● | ● | Crowns & alloy scrap | ||||||
Production residues | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Floor sweeps, grindings or other residues | |||||
Electronics | E waste | ● | ● | ● | CPU’s, ram, wires, chips, no plastic | ||||||
Capacitors | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
Targets | ● | ● | Pure mixed residues and sludge | ||||||||
Sand blast & cleandown residue | ● | ● | |||||||||
Catalysts | End of life auto catalysts | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Preprocessed ceramic, metallic, silicon carbide | ||||
Production residues | ● | ● | ● | Obsolete/reject stock | |||||||
Stationary Catalyst | ● | ● | ● | Ceramic blocks | |||||||
Fuel Cells | Electrodes | ● | ● | End of life electrodes, carbon & carbon fines | |||||||
MEA’s | ● | ● | End of life MEA’s | ||||||||
Production residues | ● | ● | Floor sweeps, spent catalysts | ||||||||
Glass | PGM Alloys | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Refractory | |||
Crucibles | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||
Thermocouples | ● | ● | |||||||||
Refractory brick | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ||||||
Mirroring residues | ● | ● | Silver sludge | ||||||||
Gold Refiners | Secondaries | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | PGM concentrates, sludges | |
Losses | ● | ● | ● | ● | Bag houses, precipitators, effluent | ||||||
Sweeps | ● | ● | Crucibles, slags | ||||||||
Jewellery | End of life scrap | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Rings, chains, rods, ingots, slags | ||||
Watch cases, coins | ● | ● | ● | Case and strap alloys | |||||||
Productions residues | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Floor sweeps, grindings and residues | |||
Laboratories | Residues | ● | ● | ● | ● | Analytical residues | |||||
Medical | ● | X-rays | |||||||||
Metallurgical | Facility clean ups | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Smelthouse, thickeners | ||
Carbon & carbon fines | ● | ● | |||||||||
Slags | ● | ||||||||||
Refractories | ● | ||||||||||
Bag house | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||||||
Mining | Effluents | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||
Concentrates | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Free gold, alluvial | |||
Vamping | ● | Stopes, mills | |||||||||
Petrochemical | Reforming catalyst | ● | ● | ● | ● | Free flowing pellets, extrudate, spheres | |||||
Catalyst residues | ● | ● | ● | ● | Fines | ||||||
PGM Refiners | Process residues | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | By products, waste, effluents, residues | ||
Secondaries | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Osmium, silver chlorides | |||
Plating | Ion exchange resins | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |||
PGM scrap | ● | ● | ● | ||||||||
Flake, sludges | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |