This Company Quit Gold Mining after they found a Fortune in Trash! #businesss #recycling #podcast

18 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this podcast excerpt, a company representative explains how their traditional junior gold exploration firm transformed its business model by acquiring material‑processing technology to extract gold from tailings in water‑scarce environments. The success of this technology attracted interest in processing other materials, leading the company into e‑waste recycling and, through a partnership with Davis Recycling, into the recycling of diesel catalytic converters. Starting with lab tests in 2020, the effort progressed to a pilot plant, detailed design work, and ultimately the commissioning and operation of the first commercial processing module in Tennessee, marking a significant milestone in the company's shift from exploration to diversified material recycling.

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We were one of your traditional junior exploration companies. Buy properties and dig holes, try to find new resources. We had an opportunity to acquire some material processing technology intended to capture gold from tailings in water-scarce environments. Different people started to hear you could process materials. They bring you other materials and say, can you do it to this? Which brought us to e-waste. And then it brought us to the attention of Davis Recycling, who was looking to do something with diesel catalytic converters, a product that wasn't getting recycled. So back in 2020, we started doing lab testing that morphed into a pilot plant, worked into design, and then we've just commissioned and have started operating our first module of our commercial plant down in Tennessee.