American Asset Buyers
Smelting & Recovery
Optimum precious metal recovery for stronger payable metal value across mixed gold and silver-bearing lots.
Recover More Value from Precious Metal-Bearing Materials
We handle jewelry scrap, sweeps, industrial residues, castings, and manufacturing by-products through material-specific preparation and controlled gold smelting and silver smelting routes. Each lot is screened for composition, contamination, and melt behavior before thermal treatment begins.
Metal Materials We Process
Jewelry & Casting Scrap: Rings, chains, settings, sprues, casting buttons, and other gold- or silver-bearing bench material.
Industrial Sweeps & Residues: Polishing dust, floor sweeps, filter residues, and process debris carrying recoverable precious-metal values.
Electronic Precious-Metal Scrap: Plated contacts, connectors, components, and selected electronic material containing gold, silver, or related metals.
Manufacturing By-Products: Turnings, offcuts, melt remnants, production scrap, and process residues generated during precious-metal fabrication.
Mixed Gold-Silver Material: Combined metal-bearing lots requiring controlled preparation and thermal treatment before downstream recovery.
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Different feed categories respond differently to heat, making lot preparation essential. Sorting, sizing, drying, blending, and charge preparation create a more uniform furnace feed and help limit avoidable metal loss during melting.
Smelting Control Points
Flux Recipe Selection: Chemistry is matched to oxides, base metals, and gangue in the charge.
Furnace Calibration: Temperature and hold time are set according to material composition and melt response.
Thermal Profile Control: Heat input supports complete fusion while limiting volatilization and unnecessary metal loss.
Slag Composition Review: Slag behavior is checked to confirm separation performance and identify entrained metal values.
Recovery-Focused Processing
Effective precious metal recovery depends on charge balance, collector behavior, slag fluidity, and phase separation. Controlled smelting supports cleaner metal phases, lower entrainment, and more accountable downstream refining and settlement.
