Back In the Day

I was born in Alaska and I grew up in the Central Valley of California. Over 33 Years Ago I trained with and helped to manage "The Phoenix Company" in Modesto California a Jewelry Charm manufacturing company that evolved into a Commercial Gold and Silver Refinery - The Phoenix Smelting and Refining Co. My father and I built the jewelry charm manufacturing company, (The Phoenix Co.) with the assistance of my girlfriend working up to 16 hours a day in the garage and we soon expanded to the outskirts of town growing to 30 employees. We worked our butts off for a year before we finally established a reputable wholesale jewelry manufacturing company located in Modesto, CA USA Our business grew rapidly and soon we needed to recover all of the gold and silver from our floor sweeps, grindings and polishing dusts. We then hired chemists and metallurgists to train us in assaying , smelting, recovery and refining. At this time we learned about a company through a refiner in Oregon that manufactured heat processing equipment. We contacted them with a proposal for the construction of a furnace that would reduce x-ray film to ash without losing silver at high temperatures. They put their team of top engineers in the industry to work on it and with our combined ideas and the help of a German scientist designed a machine that would recover silver from pre 1980's X-ray film at a capacity of 500 pounds of film per hour producing an end product of approx.100 Troy Ounces 99.99% Pure Silver per

Hour with only trace silver losses due to volatilization. The company that helped us design and build the Pyrolysis Machine is Kleen Air Products. The process which is used widely today is more commonly referred to as Bio-Mass Reduction. www.kleenairusa.com/ Our gold and jewelry charm company production rose and fell with the gold and silver prices rising to their highest prices in history up to 1980. Gold refining became more lucrative when Gold peaked in 1980 then prices took a downturn which led us to selling the jewelry/refining companies at a good exit point for our situation. We then moved to Hong Kong where we built rotating cathode electro winning, (reverse electroplating), units for hospitals and plating shops. These units recovered silver from fixer solutions utilized in X-ray film production and gold from cyanide solutions used in gold plating operations. Later we moved to Thailand where we exported jewelry for about a year. Then my father and his lovely Thai wife started a boat building business in Terrenganu, Malaysia and went on to operating a resort on Kenyir Lake in Kuala Terengganu. As organizing chairman of the local Lions Club dad was able to organize fun trips for orphans and children of single parents. The two of them continued to operate the resort for 8 yrs. until his health issues forced them to return to the U.S. I came back to California and went to work in the technical metal alloys industry producing technical brazing alloys for medical, automotive, aircraft and other highly specialized purposes. I am currently enjoying the Oregon coastline and meeting new friends here Brookings, Oregon USA and have taken an interest in blogging as I am doing here and Internet marketing. I am seriously interested about helping you if you are serious about starting a gold or silver refinery and partnering with you or providing you with consultation. I can't provide all of the knowledge that would be required to start this kind of business with todays continuously changing City, County, State, Federal industrial, environmental, employee, etc. regulations. As with starting any business you have to employ specialists as needed. But I can provide a smooth transition for you from your first "back yard" melting and pouring of a 3 gram button of silver or gold to your first 1000 troy Ounce Bar of .9995 Fine Silver or Gold.

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Be blessed Steve Looser

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