Scrap Platinum

[Rejinx]

Lets say there is place where they use industrial platinum foil. Tiny flakes, less then a gram, are getting swept up and thrown away. If you could get as much an 10 to 15 grams off of a sweep up, is there any way someone could sell this without raising questions? Also, how would the buyer know the platinum content?

Thanks

[scrapman1077]

If you can get it, save it up, there is a market. An assay is the only way it will be purchased.

[coppers4me]

You can try to sell a few Grams on e-bay maybe with MBG Some people have metal detectors so thay can tell if it is what you say and you may also try taking it to a jewler and get a cert. But I'm not sure they still do this sort of thing!At any rate, If you get it for free and make anything off it its ALLLLL profit.

[slumba]

Buyers have a device they can point at your pile of scraps, I think it is called an XRF? This device uses a form of X-rays and based on the results it is able to compute the composition. I can put you in touch with someone who would buy them from you if you PM me, though what he would pay, I don't know.