El Capitan Precious Metals Inc (ECPN)

[georgeiporgi]

invest, the vast majority of PM concentrates sent to refiners have no platinum and generally the refiners have no way to recover the platinum. So Pt refining differed from Au-Ag only refining.

The vast majority of platinum bearing concentrates from mineral deposits contain important amounts of paladium and gold. No one will sent their Pt concentrates to JM if they don't get paid for the paladium and gold. While JM may not process gold silver only concentrates, they do recover the gold in Pt concentrates.

The process ecpn used, mixing copper with dirt and melting it, will form a metal bar with a high percentage of the gold, silver, platinum and paladium in the dirt. All 4 are very strongly attracted to the copper melt. The only way for ecpn dirt to have only Pt and not Pd, Au and Ag is if they started with the real el cap dirt, which does not have PMs, and refined Pt inquart was added.