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Delivery of material with content of precious metals
Customers will deliver the materials to the administrative centre in Dolni Brezany or to the plant in Chvaletice. The material can also possibly be accepted by an authorized emplyee of the Galmet Company in the supplier's plant. Weighing of the material is carried out after the takover, or volume measurement is done in case of liquid wastes.
The customer is obliged to provide all necessary information on chemical and physical properties of the material to the processor. Explosive, extremelly flammable and radioactive materials are not accepted for processing. Materials with Ag, Au, Pd, Pt and Rh are generally accepted for refining.
Net weighing (if possible) or gross weighing of the materials is carried out after the takeover. Volume is measured in case of liquid materials. The found weight or volume of the accepted material is confirmed for the supplier on the delivery note.
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Property right
It is customer's responsibility that the material is in his/her possession, or that he/she has been authorized for mediation of the material processing by some other person (company).
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Sampling and homogenizing
If the customer insists on the sampling before the analysis itself, three representative samples are taken. One sample is for the material supplier, one for processor and one is archived for a repeated or arbitrary analysis.
The samples are not taken from non-homogeneous wastes. The sample for the analysis can be taken after homogenizing, it means after previous sorting, combustion or milling, in case of the customer's request. The customer has the right to participate in the material homogenizing.
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Sample analysis
Analysis is carried out in the laboratory of the Galmet Company on the content of precious metals required by the customer in advance during the material handover. Time for analyses is a subject of individual agreement between the customer and the Galmet Company. Results of the sample analyses will be communicated by the way agreed in advance. If there will be a difference between the analysis made by the material supplier and analysis made by the Galmet Company, and the parties will not come to agreement (averaging of results, acceptance of analysis of second party, etc. ) then the archived sample will be used for the arbitrary analysis in the Assay Office Praha. The costs of the arbitrary analysis will be paid by the party that has a bigger deviation from the result found by the Assay Office Praha. Till that time each party has a right to back away from the processing. The processor has a right for the cover of material homogenizing costs and a handling charge.
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Waste refining and material return
Continuous times of the waste refining differ according to the demands on the processing and the number of necessary technological steps. Time for the recuperation of the precious metals starts after the customer's acceptance of the analyses, or at the day of takeover, of the material if it is a repeated processing of known material with a constant content of the precious metals.
Approximate time for precious metal recovery:
Metal homogeneous waste – cuttings, ingots, fragments 20 working days after analysis approval
Non-homogeneous wastes – skimmings, sludges, ash 25 working days after analysis approval
If the customer asks for the return of extracted material ( Au, Ag ), it will be returned by the following way.
- Ag … granulated metal 999.8-999.9 within 2 weeks after crediting to the pretension account
- Au … ingot 999.8 within 2 weeks after crediting to the pretension account
- Au … granulated metal 999.9 within 3 weeks after crediting to the pretension account
- Pd … plate 999.5 within 8 weeks (only amounts above 500 g )
- Pt … it is not given back
- Rh … it is not given back
- Ru … it is not given back
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Weight account
The precious metal can be deposited on the weight accoung that is in the possession of the customer. The Galmet Company will store and protect the precious metal. The weight account does not yield the interest and the customer has the right to give instructions for the disposal with the precious metal at any moment selected by him/her; it means whether the metal should be sold or taken out at the conditions determined in the price list, general conditions. Published purchasing prices, or prices agreed during the material takeover for the processing in advance are valid for the sale of the precisous metal from the pretension account.
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Payment for refining and sale of precious metal from pretension account
Deadlines of payments for the refining as well as payment for the purchased materials or precious metals from the pretension account are objects of an agreement between the supplier and customer.
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Claims
Claims of weight differences and analysis results must be claimed immediately and without delay after receiving the result or difference detection.
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Force majeure
In case of events that could not be foreseen or influenced by the parties, the obligations arising from the contractual relations are suspended. The parties will agree on the solution of the existing situation after the force majeure ends. The affected party will inform the second party of the creation of such event immediately.
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