For Recovery of Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium, etc.
For Recovery of Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium, etc. |
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Using an extremly high surface area cathode, the unit is small enough to fit into the small drag-out tanks and powerful enough to recover large tanks of concentrated cyanide strip solutions.
The Problem... " steady loss of precious metals through rinsewaters, strip solutions, spent plating baths and surprisingly, ion-exchange resin colums" "lack of accountability, both in house and with outside refiners" "the cumbersome techniques of converting recovered precious metals back to productive and/or liquid assets" " presence of heavy metals in waste streams" "romoving dissolved metals from stagnant solutions" The Solution... The Gold Bug® System
The most efficient and cost effective electrolytic recovery system ever. |
The Gold Bug® is used very successfully with all of the precious metals including silver, palladium, palladium-nickel, platinum, rhodium and iridium. Various types of solutions of copper, cadmium, tin, tin-lead have all been successfully treated to concentrations of less than 5 ppm with the Gold Bug® .Undetectable levels are sometimes possible to obtain. SPEED
OF RECOVERY
*Actual test data and graphs supplied courtesy Engelhard-CLAL Corp The Gold Bug® is able to bring relatively large volumes of solution with concentrations of metals all over the spectrum to environmental compliance levels in many cases. This is done quickly and inexpensively. In fact, do not let the price fool you. With confidence, we invite you to try it on us and match it against any other system available. Use it for thirty days and send it back if you are not satisfied. That is our guarantee!
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Gold
Bug FAQ's
How does the Gold Bug® achieve its remarkable efficiency? The Gold Bug® employs a metallic matrix of enormous surface area which is formed into a cylindrical cathode. This, combined with the turbulence created by a dedicated pumping system, exposes the cathode to a continuously renewed concentration of fresh ions. This means fast plate-out to very low concentrations.
By weighing, sampling or melting the cathode, in house, The Gold Bug® allows you to know exactly what has been recovered even before the refiner knows it. Since the cathodes are inexpensive and disposable, precise record keeping and metal extraction is easy.
You're taking the metals out in your own shop. The water stays in your plant. Hence, no drums of solution requiring hazmat documentation, no transportation costs for heavy drums, no insurance etc. Easy, inexpensive processing with full accountability. You're back in control.
NO! The recovery cell is designed to fit within the tank holding the metal-bearing solution. Less than 1 square foot of area is all that is necessary to accommodate the Gold Bug®.
After the cathode is removed and either weighed, sampled or melted, you can ship it to your refiner via registered mail. Typical refining charges are a fraction of what they would be relative to solutions or resins.
By far the most popular application is for point source recovery from drag-out tanks, plating baths and stripper solutions. Other applications include ion exchange regeneration, dummying, and enhancement of existing ion-exchange systems. Can I use the Gold Bug® to dummy any of my baths? YES. When placed in a nickel bath at low voltage, the Gold Bug® is able to keep the copper concentration from ever building up to objectionable levels. It is particularly helpful because dummying can be achieved at the same time the plating is taking place. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to wait until after-hours for maintenance. The same Gold Bug® system can be moved around to many different baths.
Electrolytic dissociation of cyanide is a well-documented phenomenon. The Gold Bug® will continuously destroy free cycinide as it recovers metals, making total waste treatment that much easier.
All platers know that oxygen and hydrogen are generated at the electrodes. If not vented properly, this mixture is highly combustible and can explode. Any gas that accumulates in the Gold Bug® harmlessly floats to the surface of the solution. In over one hundred million machine-hours, we are not aware of one instance of any type of hazard ever occurring. Letters From A Few Of Our Customers...
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