Sweeps

We buy precious metal sweeps from jewellery, dental, electronics and refining operations, including floor and bench sweeps, polishing dust, carpets and filters. Send a description and weight for a written offer.

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Collected workshop sweeps containing fine metal filings, polishing dust, worn buffing wheels, and contaminated abrasive materials in industrial recycling bins.

Precious metal sweeps hold metal you have already paid for

Every workshop that works with gold, silver, platinum or palladium loses a little metal into dust, filings and polishing waste. Over time, floor and bench sweeps, vacuum bags, carpets, filters and wash water build up into material worth recovering. Precious metal sweeps are processed by incineration, milling and sampling, then assayed, so the owner is paid for the metal that escaped production.

FORMS WE BUY

Sweeps and low-grade precious metal material we buy

Metal filings, machining dust and workshop debris collected in a steel tray and dustpan beside industrial metalworking equipment.

Floor and bench sweeps

Dust, filings and floor debris from workshops

Used polishing wheels and buffing pads covered in dark metal dust and polishing residue, collected in a worn industrial workshop tray.

Polishing waste

Polishing dust, wheels and buffs

Used industrial cartridge filters and dust extraction bags coated with fine metal-bearing particles, alongside collected dust inside a workshop.

Filters and vacuum bags

Extraction filters, bags and ducting dust

Worn industrial floor mats, rolled workshop carpets and protective aprons covered with metal dust and debris, collected for material recovery.

Carpets and mats

Workshop carpets, mats and aprons

$Used melting crucibles and broken refractory furnace linings showing heat damage, blackened surfaces and accumulated residues inside a foundry.$

Crucibles and refractories

Used melting crucibles and furnace linings

Gold-colored metal filings, jewelry offcuts, small components and polishing dust collected in a metal tray on a jeweler's workbench.

Jewelry sweeps

Sweeps from jewellery manufacturing and repair

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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Tin Recycling

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Vanadium Recycling

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Tungsten Carbide Scrap

Nickel Alloys

Cobalt Alloys

Titanium Alloys

High Speed Steel

Jet Engine & Turbine Blade Scrap

Rare Earth & Magnet Scrap

Battery Black Mass

Tungsten Catalyst

Molybdenum Catalyst

Copper Catalyst

Vanadium Catalyst

Mixed-Metal Catalyst

Precious Metal (PGM) Catalyst

Gold (Au)

Silver (Ag)

Platinum (Pt)

Palladium (Pd)

Rhodium (Rh)

Iridium (Ir)

Ruthenium (Ru)

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

Precious metal sweeps and jewelry sweeps FAQ

What precious metal sweeps do you buy?

Floor and bench sweeps, polishing dust, wheels and buffs, extraction filters and vacuum bags, workshop carpets and mats, used crucibles and furnace linings, and jewelry sweeps from manufacturing and repair. Material from dental labs, electronics assembly and refining is also welcome.

How are sweeps sampled and assayed?

Sweeps are usually burned to remove organic material, then milled and blended to a uniform powder. A representative sample is taken and fire-assayed for gold, silver, platinum and palladium. You can ask for a split sample to check the result.

How is a sweeps lot paid?

On the assayed precious metal content times agreed payable rates, valued at the metal prices on the agreed date, less processing and refining charges. Charges are higher for sweeps than for solid scrap, because of the processing involved. Oryx confirms all terms in writing.

Is there a minimum quantity for jewelry sweeps?

Processing costs mean very small lots may not be worth handling alone. Many workshops collect sweeps for a year before selling. Tell us roughly what you have and we will advise whether to send now or keep collecting.

Can you handle sweeps from refiners and electronics plants?

Yes. Larger industrial sweeps from refiners, plating lines and electronics assembly are a regular stream. We agree sampling and settlement terms in advance and can schedule collections.

Why sell sweeps through Oryx Metals?

With sweeps, processing and sampling decide almost everything. Oryx Metals agrees the method before shipping, uses refiners with proper sweeps processing and offers split samples, so you can see that what you were paid matches the metal you sent.