GC Metals Ltd

Analytical & Valuation Services

Only established traders with a reputation for reliability can provide the detailed compositional analysis that is needed to determine the true worth of your material. G.C Metals undertakes a comprehensive analysis of your material sample and provides full details of the percentage of payable metals and impurities. We then use an independent government licensed Assaying Company to confirm our evaluations. Based on these reports, we can provide confirmed details and reach a quick settlement over the material. It's quick and it's easy - send your sample in an envelope and we'll get it analysed as quickly as possible!

Metal Processing & Refining

At G.C Metals, we're able to process and refine materials to reclaim all of the precious metals that are found within. What is often considered waste can in fact contain reusable - and even highly valuable - metals. We use advanced chemical, electrical and smelting techniques to recover these for you - it's an efficient and effective way of maximising your reclaim yields. Because all of our refining processes are carried out on-site, our customers can reap maximum financial returns. It also allows us to monitor and enforce conformity with legal guidelines and environmental standards.

To take advantage of our free, UK-wide collection service, please give us a call!

Fabricated Metals & Products

G.C Metals is pleased to be able to supply a range fabricated metals for various customers and industries. Some of our regular products include sheets, grain, slugs, precious metal targets, and wires of various diameters.

For further information or to discuss specialist items, please get in touch directly.

Consultancy Service & Waste Management

With over 40 years experience in the trade, G.C Metals is able to provide a first-class consultancy service based on experience and expertise. As more and more companies are investigating the possibility of recovering waste materials, many of them are looking for a partner that can advise on values and viability. Also, with new directives and regulations such as the WEEE, which restricts industrial production, emissions and equipment, it's now highly advisable to consult specialists when you're thinking of refining waste materials. Alongside our consultancy service, we offer a  comprehensive waste management and reclamation service so that our customers can reuse materials to an environmental and financial advantage.

Metal Account Management

For those customers that do not wish to take immediate delivery of their refined materials, we can set up a metal account which allows them to sell reclaimed materials as and when they need to. This is an invaluable service for those who want to take advantage of precious metal price fluctuations.

To find out more, please follow the link to the G.C Metals website or get in touch by phone. Our friendly, helpful representatives are always happy to receive your enquiry.

Industries Served

Over the years, G.C Metals has offered its refinery and reclamation services to firms operating in a wide range of industries, including aerospace and avionics, automotive, ceramics, chemical and petrochemical, computer, dental, electronic research, engineering, environmental, jewellery, mining and refining, photographic, plating and vacuum plating, printing, marine, telecommunications, and many more. In each and every one of these industries there are items containing precious metals which can be reclaimed.

Materials for Recovery

The following is a list of some of the items which may contain reclaimable precious metals:

• Electronics: PCBs, integrated circuits, hybrid circuits, switches, diodes, contacts and connectors, transistors, thermocouples, solder, brazing waste, anodes, racks, wire & hooks.
• Jewellery: Sweeping, dust and filters, filings and bench waste, watchbands and stretch bracelets, coin plating, castings and refractories, gold-plated scrap.
• Decorative: Genuine gold leaf & gold foil stamping waste, paints, brushes, kim wipes and
  rags, covers, jars, cans, conveyor belting, exhaust fan filters, drop cloths, mirror waste, ceramic & glass decorating waste.
• Mining and Refining: Placer gold and lode gold, bullion and dore bullion, gold flake, gold retort sponge, concentrates and tankhouse sludges, alluvial gold, silver, platinum palladium, rhodium, and iridium, drosses, refractories, skimmings, slags and sweeps.
• Photographic, Graphic Art, X-Ray Labs: Electrolytic silver flake and scale, silver recovery cartridges, silver sludge, silver-sensitized film and paper, medical and industrial X-ray film.
• Chemical & Petrochemical: Gold, silver and platinum catalysts, thermocouple wire scrap, miscellaneous dusts,crusts and residues, getter gauzes, pollution abatement catalysts, worn platinum laboratory ware, tank sludge.
• Plating and Vacuum Plating: Spent plating solutions, filter cartridges, anodes, drag-out solutions, sputtering targets, slugs, vacuum chamber flake.