<<Looks like these folks want to put you out of business or change your business greatly - get you to buy their tools? also might reduce profit from future mining unless process can also be used to refine ore? >>
First, thank you, Richard, for taking the time to dig that up and post it for my and other's benefit on this thread.
First of all, I carefully read their website, processes, explanations, etc., and there is nothing new here. It is a simple grinding system, combined with gravitational separation. A great deal of "regular mining" has moved to variations of this processing model.
While their graphics make it look easy, it is illogical to grind up something containing alloys and end up with a pure, cone shaped pile of copper, aluminum, plastic, etc. As far as the metallics are concerned, they refer to "sintered pellets"...and BELIEVE me, they are not pure pellets of any single metal from a one pass operation.
I'm afraid demanufacturing is more "Rube Goldberg-ish" than the simple photos provided.
While I know first hand some of the challenges of metallic demanufacturing, I have avoided use of centrifuges, altho' I've studied their applications. I don't have the scientific gravimetric lingo E. Charters has to explain it, but I am here to assure you, centrifuges are NOT easy machines to use, let alone in a compound input, compound output circuit. Perhaps he will add some words of explanation at sometime in the future if you are interested.
Thanks again for the post.
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