precious metals recovery and refining

We provides precious metals refining service and processes wide range of materials containing

Pt
Platinum
Pd
Palladium
Rh
Rhodium
Au
Gold
Ag
Silver
Ag
Iridium
Ru
Ruthenium

Refining and treatment processes at our refinery in Riga, are designed and developed on the basis of safety and efficiency with the focus on highest recovery rates and shortest metal return time.

Significant investments in our smelting and refining operations provided us capacity to handle any recycling job, regardless of material state or precious metals content.

What materials are suitable for refining?

Low grade

Scrap automotive catalysts, ceramic monolith, metal substrate
Industrial catalyst. Materials originating from Chemical, Oil-Refining and Pharmaceutical Industries
Scrap refractory from glass and fiberglass industries
IT-equipment scrap, printed circuit boards, capacitors, processors, chips and connectors, telecommunication scrap
Industrial wastes and by-products such as tailings, residues, sludge, filtrates, dust and slag
Minerals and ores
Residues originating from processing of metallic catalytic converters

High grade

Precious Metal Alloys, Thermocouples, laboratory ware, gauzes, dental scrap
Jewelry scrap, Prepared jewelry sweeps, cuttings, sweeps
Metallic scrap: bars, ingots, bullions, grains, coins
Concentrates
Solutions and chemical compounds
Ashes, powders, sponge
Recoveries from photographic industry

What are next steps?

Before accepting material for processing, customer's representative sample would be highly appreciated, in order to evaluate material and provide best pricing and contract conditions.

Delivery

Customers are welcome to deliver material to our refinery in Riga or use help of our logistics team.

Sampling

Once the material is delivered, material shall be inspected and final sample recovered.
All sampling operations are conducted with the compliance of independent representative and customer requirements.

Assaying

A chemical analysis will be completed on the sample, to evaluate precious metals content.

Analysis results are exchanged between customer and Lekon, for final agreement of precious metals content.

Settlement

Once precious metal content is determined, payable elements are credited to customer's account and are subject to flexible settlement options.

Recovered metals may be:
— Sold to Lekon at market value.
— Returned physically to customer
— Transferred to third party account
— Purchasing of the recovered metals