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  2. Metech Incorporated - Wikipedia

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    The company designed a processing line to include shredders and downstream separation equipment. At this time, Metech also discontinued receiving precious-metals-containing hazardous waste and scaled back its other local precious metals refining businesses that were not adding value to the company's focus on integrated electronics recycling. 2007

  3. Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine - Wikipedia

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    The Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility, owned by MP Materials, is an open-pit mine of rare-earth elements on the south flank of the Clark Mountain Range in California, 53 miles (85 km) southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2020 the mine supplied 15.8% of the world's rare-earth production.

  4. Cupellation - Wikipedia

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    16th century cupellation furnaces (per Agricola). Cupellation is a refining process in metallurgy in which ores or alloyed metals are treated under very high temperatures and subjected to controlled operations to separate noble metals, like gold and silver, from base metals, like lead, copper, zinc, arsenic, antimony, or bismuth, present in the ore.

  5. Refining (metallurgy) - Wikipedia

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    In one of the previous melting stages, lead was added. Gold and silver preferentially dissolved in this, thus providing a means of recovering these precious metals. To produce purer copper suitable for making copper plates or hollow-ware, further melting processes were undertaken, using charcoal as fuel. The repeated application of such fire ...

  6. Sulphur Bank Mine - Wikipedia

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    This was the largest gold discovery of the 20th century in California, and is a classic example of a hot springs-type epithermal precious metals system. [83] Most of the gold was microscopic, but some fine examples of banded chalcedony veinlets were recovered—see photos at link. [84]

  7. Precious metal - Wikipedia

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    1,000 oz silver bar. A metal is deemed to be precious if it is rare. The discovery of new sources of ore or improvements in mining or refining processes may cause the value of a precious metal to diminish. The status of a "precious" metal can also be determined by high demand or market value.