Managing Director
CurrentPatrick Weerts is a Consultant in Processing of Precious & Minor Metals.He is happy to help companies optimizing their Precious Metals Processing Operations, and recovering Minors Metals Bismuth, Tellurium, Selenium, .. Refining of Precious Metals is a challenge, because of their association with numerous impurities, making Precious Metals feed very complex. In nature and in metallurgical operations, Precious Metals can combine with many other metals and chemical elements. They can form complex compounds, needing to be decomposed in order to recover the metals. Otherwise Precious Metals yields are affected.Attention must be paid to Selenium, Tellurium and Bismuth. These Special Metals are accompanying Precious Metals and they are extracted during Precious Metals Refining. Their market value justifies a specific processing allowing to concentrate and to recover Special Metals. They are used as high purity compounds in new technological applications, such as Photo Voltaic Solar Pannels. In particular the price of Tellurium culminated a few years ago at usd 300 per kg, close to the price of Silver.
