Platinum (Pt)

Oryx Metals buys platinum scrap for platinum recycling, including thermocouple wire, glass fibre bushings, labware, sensors, electrodes and platinum-bearing residues. Send your analysis for a written offer.

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Platinum recycling from industrial equipment and lab use

Platinum is used where heat, corrosion and precision meet: platinum-rhodium bushings that spin glass fibre, thermocouples in furnaces, crucibles and labware, sensors, medical devices and electrodes. These parts wear out or are replaced, but they keep nearly all of their platinum. Platinum recycling returns that value to the owner and puts the metal back into production.

FORMS WE BUY

Platinum scrap we buy

Glass fibre bushings

Pt-Rh bushings, tips and baseplates

Thermocouple wire

Type R, S and B Pt-Rh thermocouples

Platinum laboratory crucibles, shallow dishes, metal tongs and precision lab tools displayed on a workbench near an industrial furnace.

Labware and crucibles

Platinum crucibles, dishes and lab tools

Used oxygen sensors, platinum resistance temperature detectors, metal electrodes and industrial probe components arranged on a workshop inspection table.

Sensors and electrodes

Oxygen sensors, RTDs and platinum electrodes

Platinum metal sheets, thin strips, coiled wire and assorted alloy offcuts collected on a stainless steel workbench for precious metal recycling.

Platinum sheet and wire

Pure platinum and alloy offcuts

$Spent furnace refractory fragments, used industrial filters and dark metal-bearing residues collected in recycling bins near a high-temperature furnace.$

Platinum residues

Furnace refractories, sweeps and filters

HOW minor metals are PRICED

Oryx Metals makes scrap recycling easy and profitable

There's no single scrap price for minor metals. The same metal can come as clean solids or contaminated powder, and its value per kg can differ many times over. Every Oryx offer is based on your material's analysis, form and the market on the day.

How our pricing works

Highest value

Clean, high-purity solids

Uncontaminated pieces, offcuts, ingots and production rejects

Mid-Range

Coated or alloyed scrap

Coated parts, alloys, turnings and mixed solids

Priced on content

Powders, sludges & residues

Value depends on metal %, contamination and moisture

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Precious Metal (PGM) Catalyst

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Metal-Bearing Sludges

Mixed Metal Residues

Filter Cakes

Sweeps

Dusts

Fines

Slags

Tantalum & Niobium (ores)

Tungsten (ores)

Tin (ores)

Titanium (ores)

Rare Earth (ores)

MATERIAL WE’ve BOUGHT

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Pile of broken mirrored germanium optical lens fragments

Scrap germanium lenses

Bulk bags filled with shiny titanium machining chips in a warehouse

Titanium turnings

Close up of grey extruded catalyst pellets

Spent catalyst

Dismantled aircraft jet engines stacked in an outdoor scrap yard

Scrap Jet Engines

Heap of used tungsten carbide drill bit buttons

Tungsten carbide scrap

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FAQs

Platinum recycling and platinum scrap price questions

What platinum scrap can go to platinum recycling?

Platinum-rhodium glass fibre bushings, Type R, S and B thermocouple wire, crucibles and labware, sensors, RTDs and electrodes, platinum sheet and wire, and platinum-bearing refractories, sweeps and filters. Platinum catalysts are covered on our PGM Catalyst page.

Are used glass furnace refractories worth sampling for platinum?

Often. Bricks and refractories from under platinum bushings and glass melt equipment can pick up platinum over years of service. A sample assay tells you whether they are worth processing.

What sets the platinum scrap price?

The assayed platinum and rhodium content, the form, the platinum and rhodium prices on the agreed date, and refining charges. Solid alloys like bushings and thermocouple wire earn better terms than residues. Oryx gives a written offer with all terms stated.

Do you buy platinum labware from universities and labs?

Yes. Damaged crucibles, dishes and electrodes from labs and universities are welcome. Small lots can be weighed and assayed individually, and we confirm the process before shipping.

How do glass fibre producers sell old bushings to Oryx?

Most producers sell bushings and alloy at each rebuild. We agree sampling, assay and settlement terms in advance, collect the material, and pay by wire, or agree metal return terms where you need the metal back.

Why choose Oryx Metals for platinum scrap?

With platinum, a fraction of a percent in assay or recovery changes the result. Oryx Metals agrees transparent sampling and assay terms, works with established PGM refiners and pays for rhodium as well as platinum, so you are paid for everything in the alloy.