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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NorthKorea, post: 2486122, member: 29643&quot;]Are you sure on the above? I would assume that the only people looking for refined Zn would be seeking it for things like Zinc tablets... not sure having even 5% copper in that mixture would be advisable. But, anyhow, even if we assume you&#039;re able to melt down the scrap for free, that still doesn&#039;t address the issue of toxicity. Zinc oxide is HIGHLY toxic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and I figured out my mistake (and it&#039;s admittedly a huge one) on the BTU cost. I just took it off an energy bill. And, maybe you&#039;re right on the transportation costs. How will you load your 5500 pounds of zinc? Were my actual calculations faulty? I know the number seemed absurd... maybe the information I used was misinterpreted. It said 0.37-cents, but the graph showed a little over a third of a dollar in the bar chart, so I assumed they meant 37-cents. Maybe the chart was incorrect, so it really was 0.37-cents. If you divide my number by 100, does it sound more in line? $23.43 for transportation. That actually sounds really low, to me. I can&#039;t imagine it being that low. Maybe that&#039;s actual cost to the shipper, not including labor and markup. Anyway, let&#039;s use $23.43 and assume you have a shipping company.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say we used the cheapest form of energy and assumed 100% efficiency. That would be coal at 56-cents per mmBTU.</p><p>364.6mmBTU at 56-cents = $204.18</p><p><br /></p><p>You said there&#039;d be no reason to have the zinc verified for purity, which I disagree with, since you wouldn&#039;t even have to go through this process, if that were true, but let&#039;s take your assumption as true.</p><p><br /></p><p>Energy: $204.18</p><p>Transportation: $23.43</p><p>Cost $10227.61</p><p><br /></p><p>$2257.50 per ton</p><p>2.75 tons</p><p>Net value (assuming refiner will buy 95% zinc as 100%): $6208.13</p><p><br /></p><p>Net profit: -$4019.49[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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