Refining Resources & Helpful Tips

Learn more about the refining process and get the education you need to ensure the highest return on your scrap.

Starting a Scrap Program
Selecting and Working with a Refiner
Think Refining around the Lab
Think Refining around the Office
Three Reasons You Should Cash in Your Scrap on a Regular Basis

Starting a Scrap Program

• Webinar: Asset Management for the Dental Practice
  This webinar will help you understand the value of precious metal scrap.
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• Interview with Tony Circelli, Inside Dental Technology
  Advice for Laboratory Owners Seeking to Sell Scrap Metals.
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Selecting and Working with a Refiner

• Avoid Middlemen to Get Top Prices for Your Scrap
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Think Refining around the Lab

You will find scrap in many shapes and forms around the lab. Precious metals can come from a variety of areas:

• Grindings from benches and drawers
• Sweeps from the floor (especially in the casting area)
• Spills and debris (slag) from the casting-well areas
• Vacuum-system debris (including the vacuum bags)
• Platinum-foil scrap
• Platinum muffles and thermocouples in obsolete equipment

Also be sure to:

• Save your sink traps
• Vacuum your entire work station, cleaning lights, cracks, crevices, chairs, and shoes
• Place carpets at the entrance and exit of finishing areas to collect grindings and dust

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Think Refining around the Office

Collect any precious metal scrap explanted within your practice. Yellow crown and bridge material can include a broad range of gold content, in addition to other precious metals such as platinum, palladium and silver. Send in scrap that you might have placed in a jar from the following procedures:

• Crowns or bridges
• Screws
• Inlays
• Gradings
• Partials

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Three Reasons You Should Cash in Your Scrap on a Regular Basis

Accountability – Scrap has no value to you until it is refined. Regular, frequent shipments allow you to keep track of your assets.

Liquidity – Precious scrap is not liquid until you cash it in. Raw scrap collects dust, not interest.

Security – Scrap stashes are not insured. Insurance companies will not reimburse in the event of fire or theft.

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