Scavenging Copper From Trash With A Shaker Table, Clean Copper For Cash

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3 жыл бұрын

Re-running some copper chop tailings to recover additional free copper after screening and static precipitation. I was amazed at the amount of copper left in the "waste" from this granulator copper chopping line.
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@dewardtaylor4192 3 жыл бұрын

You can try salt in the water and temperature of the water. Warm water to hot water will help separate the plastic. Another great video thanks Jason

@mkbman45 3 жыл бұрын

What's the smallest shaker table you make? Something for small scale gold mining.

@cheesynuts4291 3 жыл бұрын

See here I thought you’d gotten lost in your gold mine.

@johniesmith7672 3 жыл бұрын

Just dump a small bottle of Jet-Dry in your water recirculation system it will save you a whole lot of time I'm a gold miner in Alaska and when we do beach mining we use either Dawn dish soap in our water when we're using a recirculation system or jet dry to keep the ultrafine flower gold from floating away

@SuperMortiki 3 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, I was looking forward to a copper smelt

@donniebrown2896 3 жыл бұрын

Smelt ore, melt copper

@chechnya 2 ай бұрын

@@donniebrown2896 smelt your mom

@timturner2139 3 жыл бұрын

Mix Jet-Dry with your water to help break surface tension

@ericprater4017 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I love your vids! Keep on working them onto here! I'm sharing these as fast as they come out!

@sharkscrapper 3 жыл бұрын

Wow - you have my brain going crazy with ideas of where to take this as I grow my company. Thank you

@jarrettalaric1755 3 жыл бұрын

Just smelted my first aluminum copper brass an gold ingots thanks to u man. Keep the content coming!

@xvideodventurer4826 3 жыл бұрын

It's amazing just how much material can be missed, that could have been easily recovered. Bravo 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏.

@MakingUsThink 3 жыл бұрын

Only a competitor would give a thumbs down on Jason's constant innovation! Great work always Jason. I wish you all the patents you can think and come up with :)

@yoopermann7942 3 жыл бұрын

that was a great run! thank you for sharing it with us!

@sams5803 2 жыл бұрын

Once I get out of debt....I will start processing e-waste and scrap metal. It is my dream

@JimNichols 3 жыл бұрын

It is amazing to watch you, I have seen most of your videos and love the fact that you are getting a little grey in your beard, that comes from life. With that life comes knowledge and you are just a beast of mineral extraction knowledge sir! Thanks for the ride along and the time it takes to include us in your journey bro!

@chilufyachola5547 Жыл бұрын

Nice tech. I'm very interested in this technology. Your videos very informative. Great work!

@shaneyork300 3 жыл бұрын

With the copper prices where they are at its a good thing to go after it. Have a Great Day My Friend!!

@eby6114 3 жыл бұрын

You just made someone in the industry very happy

@scottgraves4546 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason.

@jonpierce8342 2 жыл бұрын

If your aluminum is only coming over during the brush down you could just switch containers right before you clean up.

@sams5803 2 жыл бұрын

Your stuff is amazing.

@kentieber7309 Жыл бұрын

nice video. In several videos you talk about tuning the table. Have you made a video on all the variables of the table that have to be adjusted for optimal performance?

@T1jetmech 3 жыл бұрын

Great to see another video...been a while.

@tawnihaynie1065 3 жыл бұрын

Hi. Great video. Please stay safe and healthy and take care of yourself and your family. Includes all the members also. Please have a nice day. Ttyl my friend ☺☺☺😇😇😇

@RalphReagan 3 жыл бұрын

I like that the shaker tables shows up the precipitaters

@cditzler6313 3 жыл бұрын

can always just run it thru the mill too since its hooked to it

@sn0w854 3 жыл бұрын

Any update from the gold mine?

@beaverc2884 3 жыл бұрын

Use dishwasher machine soap. No suds and no foaming. This way you can use more soap.

@doddshay9019 3 жыл бұрын

You could probably put the concentrates into an acetone bath to dissolve off remaining bits of plastic/wire insulation. Next run this solution through a distilling column and re-use the acetone. Like an oil refinery. I dont know what you would do with the plastic insulation (or who knows what else?) fraction you would recover from re-distilling. Maybe someone would buy it or it is cheap to dispose of in some way.

@MP57719 3 жыл бұрын

So the raw material was copper wire and you are suggesting going straights to shaker table after a hammer mill? So if that was the tailings, what was the rest of the recovery numbers? Great demonstration.

@danapted 2 жыл бұрын

I think you could fine tune your shakers by adding mass drivers and testing different ultrasonic frequencies.

@parnelltk2 2 жыл бұрын

Is it the different densities of the materials that make this work? Are we basically just gathering materials with similar density into different collection bins? What frequency/speed are you operating for the table? What is the source for the material that you are running through the shaker table?

@TheWolfster001 Жыл бұрын

"JET DRY" works great and almost no sods or foam...

@mayhemarmwrestling 2 жыл бұрын

I'm curious as to how well the shaker table works with black sand and gold. Working with micro gold. I'm looking at possibly looking at a claim in NZ and would love to see how well this works on high tons per hour.

@benjaminshepard1385 3 жыл бұрын

What is the smallest shaker table you make. I'm a recycling researcher. Needing info.

@richardjohnson4373 3 жыл бұрын

Can you give a video example or explain that process of a statistic separator.

@Mikkelltheimmortal 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting material. Where did you get it?

@hussenhanif5225 3 жыл бұрын

Hi I have something that looks exactly like that but with a lot of goldfish stuff, and I got it from borehole water filter

@hussenhanif5225 3 жыл бұрын

Tried with magnets and it doesn't hold on to magnet at all

@MrRammsteinforlife Жыл бұрын

How often do you change the water in the tailings pond/recycled water trouph?

@AXLAXHENNE 2 жыл бұрын

should develop some sort of "plastic garbage bag tension breaker" to sell with your product

@HydroMaester 3 жыл бұрын

Have you tried Calgon as a deflocculant/surface tension breaker?

@timothybaker8234 3 жыл бұрын

An you soak the final screenings in a salt brine solution adjusted so that all the plastic floats to the top?

@patrickdurst3495 Жыл бұрын

Could you put a rubber flap on the output of the hammer mill so that it drags the top of the water when in operation, and breaks the surface tension physically?

@TVTambangMineral 3 жыл бұрын

Nice Broo

@mattbowser5274 2 жыл бұрын

How does it work with powdered metal an real fine material

@thubprint 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to have access to your level of equipment 😎

@skeets6060 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if jet dry would have worked better?

@BillMulholland1 2 жыл бұрын

Jet dry? 🍻👍

@akafrosty6175 3 жыл бұрын

Could smelt the #2 to separate the aluminum?

@jonathancociorvan4577 3 жыл бұрын

Just wondering what do you do with your waste water?

@seymourpro6097 3 жыл бұрын

That would make a good start for electrowinning copper but the presence of plastics would make smelting undesireable.

@FunDumb 3 жыл бұрын

You could easily re-divert that number one safety grove copper with some hot glue.

@lrhcconrad2230 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not a miner or a salvage expert , your set up is jenious to say the least . curious roughly how much the complete set up would run . roughly ! Guessing 25 or 30 k ?

@patrickbateman5988 3 жыл бұрын

Table alone is 15k

@poptoppup 3 жыл бұрын

Im new here, how do you come up with the "ore"

@daryllrussell4681 3 жыл бұрын

Where do you find these copper scrap that companies are throwing away

@patprop74 3 жыл бұрын

how much copper do you have to run throw it to pay for itself? at today's prices, please

@zamistro 3 жыл бұрын

Not going to mill it first? Yeah, it's already chopped up, but wouldn't a finer granule help?

@donaldhoot7741 2 жыл бұрын

Melt it up next time! Great video.

@renanjacob6791 2 жыл бұрын

Please, repeat the cody's lab vídeo of side road dust, you could do It in large scale.

@RudeMcNasty 3 жыл бұрын

Labor costs, water, electricity, getting rid of the waste in a landfill, the cost of the machine, and maintenance, is it profitable to recycle copper?

@urbanprospector3007 2 жыл бұрын

Well...run the numbers. .25 per ounce, 16 ounces in a pound = roughly $4 a pound. Table pulls say 25 pounds of copper per hour, estimated. Runs for 6 hours a day. Set is run by small generator on $10 of diesel per day. Water is recycled and used over and over. Plastic waste is dried and sold to plastic recycler for say .05 per pound, and given a 2nd life. Little to no waste.

@urbanprospector3007 2 жыл бұрын

Starting with 1000 pounds of scrap wire granulars, getting a 15%, way low, recovery rate, 150 pounds of copper, at roughly $4 a pound comes to $600 per day, 6 hour run time, with very little waste. Plastic pays for the fuel used. 50% production cost, so $300 roughly per day... nope, not worth it as you'd have to work 30 hours per week and only make $1500 profit. Your better off collecting aluminum cans and making $60 extra a month. Gotta think outside the box and see the bigger picture.

@KingMidas1983 3 жыл бұрын

Would this work for aluminum as well? At my shop we throw out 100 lbs+ a day of aluminum shavings that are contaminated with polyurethane shavings because no recycler will take it. Curious about the "static separator" you mentioned

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 3 жыл бұрын

Put it in a big container of water and stir if around. The aluminium will sink while the plastic floats.

@justinhaase8825 3 жыл бұрын

It's an electrostatic separator. More common in operations that do Materials processing by the truckload, as the machinery costs a lot.

@KingMidas1983 3 жыл бұрын

@@justinhaase8825 thanks. Definitely costs more than what it would save us in recycling aluminum, but I'll see if someone local offers the service

@william33870 3 жыл бұрын

We need more gold videos please

@donniebrown2896 3 жыл бұрын

Unless you are into melting and have a source to sell the ingots to, then this would all be classified as number two dirty, no yard will pay the prices you use. Those prices quoted are for clean bright bare number one

@WowplayerMe 3 жыл бұрын

I have zero experience with any of this, so, dumb question... why not incinerate the tailings before running it all on the table?

@urbanprospector3007 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know if the metal yards buy this type of chops and what they classified the chops as?

@garrettmillard525 Жыл бұрын

depends, hopefully #2

@jonnstively290 3 жыл бұрын

I have tried to get in touch with you to see if you can help me with some sample of ore I have so I can see if buying one of your true key machine would benefit me how can I get in touch with you I won't to bring this ore samples and have you give me a chance to see it work

@Muddyorphan1812 3 жыл бұрын

Mountain bear eh I'd of just tossed it in a crucible just burn the plastic away and get a nice little ingot Love underwill 🙏

@reyadshbika2090 3 жыл бұрын

احسنت اخي لو ممكن ترجمه عربي

@Muddyorphan1812 3 жыл бұрын

Or put it in an acid solution to melt the wire away

@markn4253 3 жыл бұрын

Why would you do this when you could just burn the plastic off with gasoline then throw the left over material into an acid bath or straight into a crucible?

@tonyclack5901 3 жыл бұрын

1 pound of copper = £3 after all that messing around, minus the cost of running the plant? Why?

@stropolimadness3867 3 жыл бұрын

Just melt into a copper block contamination will burn off

@ursamines7643 3 жыл бұрын

How do you “tune up” the shaker table?

@RalphReagan 3 жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised! Adjusting the tilt, waterflow, and if I remember correctly on ours the vibration was adjusted also.

@ursamines7643 3 жыл бұрын

@@RalphReagan good to know mine should be here soon.

@RalphReagan 3 жыл бұрын

@@ursamines7643 that's so cool!

@ursamines7643 3 жыл бұрын

@@RalphReagan I am excited I have about 3 tones of eWaste to smash and run on the table

@ursamines7643 3 жыл бұрын

@Curt Clark that’s the goal.

@jobuda10 3 жыл бұрын

Melt it to a bar.

@Muddyorphan1812 3 жыл бұрын

I melt my rocks with hydrolic acid

@alanl.simmons9726 2 жыл бұрын

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