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Smelters & refiners

Smelters · refiners · metallurgical processors

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Smelters & refiners

Payable metal in, penalties accounted for.

Smelters · refiners · metallurgical processors

A refinerie's decisions are only as sound as the analysis behind them. That calls for rigorous feed verification on receipt, precise determination of deleterious and penalty elements — arsenic, antimony, bismuth, mercury, selenium — and a mass balance you can defend across slag, matte and residue streams. Precision is the whole point.

Why processors choose Bachelet
  • Independent feed verification to confirm what you are paying for.
  • Penalty-element determination at trace level by ICP-OES and AAS.
  • Slag, matte, anode-slime and residue analysis for recovery & mass balance.
  • Fire assay for precious-metal payables in complex feeds.
Typical metals: Cu Ni As Sb Bi Se · Te
Selected clients

Smelters and refiners who rely on Bachelet.

A selection of the companies across the metals value chain that trust our results.

Atlantic Copper
Aurubis
Boliden
China Copper
Goldschmidt
Hindalco
Jinchuan
Korea Zinc
Nyrstar
Toho Zinc
Vedanta
Xiangguang
Zijin
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Whoever you are in the chain, the proof is the same.

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