Blog - Reclaim, Recycle, and Sell your Precious Metal Scrap

Most people doing industrial teardowns have thrown away silver cadmium contacts without knowing it. Small gray buttons, sometimes welded onto relay components, tossed into a dumpster or mixed into a general scrap pile. The s...

Most people who handle silver contacts don't realize that's what they're holding. The parts look like hardware: tiny metal discs, welded squares, small riveted buttons mounted on copper or brass. When industrial equipment ge...

Old eyeglass frames don't get much respect. They pile up in optician storage rooms, show up in estate lots, and end up in drawers for years before anyone thinks twice about them. That's a mistake. Gold filled opti...

Research labs accumulate platinum over the years. Crucibles that sat in furnaces for decades, spools of wire, electrodes, dishes, specialized instruments nobody's touched in years. When a facility upgrades equipment or a department shuts down, all that platinum...

If you've got a pile of silver electrical contacts sitting around from circuit breakers, old relays, or industrial switchgear, you've got something worth selling. But there's a big gap between what they're actually worth and what most scrap yards will pay you.