Hazardous money

[robthedog]

Really

[teatime]

robthedog:
Really

Explosive dye packs…

[the_maoster]

Saw that (or similar) yesterday as it happens. When ICI Severnsides was closing we were sending tanker after tanker in to drain the acid tanks. Apparently (and someone with a knowledge of chemistry will back up or refute this) when the tanks were empty there was a considerable amount of precious metals left over in the bottom of the tanks. Brinks came and took that away, which probably explains the placards.

[robthedog]

the maoster:
Saw that (or similar) yesterday as it happens. When ICI Severnsides was closing we were sending tanker after tanker in to drain the acid tanks. Apparently (and someone with a knowledge of chemistry will back up or refute this) when the tanks were empty there was a considerable amount of precious metals left over in the bottom of the tanks. Brinks came and took that away, which probably explains the placards.

You need to ask a certain fridge engineer that could be his field of expertise

[pete_smith]

robthedog:

the maoster:
Saw that (or similar) yesterday as it happens. When ICI Severnsides was closing we were sending tanker after tanker in to drain the acid tanks. Apparently (and someone with a knowledge of chemistry will back up or refute this) when the tanks were empty there was a considerable amount of precious metals left over in the bottom of the tanks. Brinks came and took that away, which probably explains the placards.

You need to ask a certain fridge engineer that could be his field of expertise

Don’t need one of them Rob!
Maoster you are correct as if I remember ICI Severnside had a condensing column and when they dropped the bottom of the catalyst it would have produced silver hence the contents of the bottom of the tank going to a precious metal recovery plant, probably to Johnson Mathey.

[the_maoster]

Yeah that rings a bell Pete.

[teatime]

the maoster:
Saw that (or similar) yesterday as it happens. When ICI Severnsides was closing we were sending tanker after tanker in to drain the acid tanks. Apparently (and someone with a knowledge of chemistry will back up or refute this) when the tanks were empty there was a considerable amount of precious metals left over in the bottom of the tanks. Brinks came and took that away, which probably explains the placards.

Everyday a school day

[the_maoster]

teatime:
Everyday a school day

Was for me too mate. The fact that holding acid in a tank for a long period of time would create precious metals that you’d normally have to dig out of the ground blew my mind tbh.

[punchy_dan]

I went to Kavala in Greece to collect drums of Black sludge to be run through a plant in Sheffield to get Silver out .

[chester1]

I think that runs out of a factory in Enfield that extracts precious metals from catalytic converters

[pete_smith]

the maoster:
Yeah that rings a bell Pete.

I can vaguely remember the same happening at the Billingham plant, they skimmed the top of the acid in the tank and pumped it on to prevent anything other then acid being vac’d up.
All the Severnside plant got packed up and shipped off to China according to the demolition lads on site. Cheer’s Pete
Edit, the precious metal was Platinum.

[pete_smith]

chester1:
I think that runs out of a factory in Enfield that extracts precious metals from catalytic converters

They also have a plant at Royston.

[wheel_nut]

Oil of Vitriol

Spirit of Salt

Essence of Bat

Its Alchemy

[teatime]

Wheel Nut:
Oil of Vitriol

Spirit of Salt

Essence of Bat

Its Alchemy

you’ve been looking at my wife’s cookbook