Atlantic Precious Metal Refining

For more than 28 years, Atlantic Precious Metal Refining has offered the highest precious metal scrap lot returns in the industry, and we look forward to bringing these top dollar settlements to you.

We are a Pittsburgh-based precious metal refinery owned and operated by Don Mappin, Jr., a U.S. Air Force veteran and former dental lab technician. Our focus is dental scrap refining—we have over two decades experience helping dentists and dental lab owners discover the unexpected worth of items such as extracted gold crowns and workbench “dust”. You’d be surprised how much “money” is hidden in carpets, collection traps and vacuum systems… it really adds up!

What started in a tiny backyard shed in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has become Atlantic Precious Metal Refining, the market leader in dental scrap refining servicing 30% of all U.S.-based dental labs.

Atlantic Precious Metal Refining is a Pittsburgh-based precious metal refinery owned and operated by Don Mappin, Jr., a U.S. Air Force veteran and former dental lab technician. Our focus is dental scrap refining—we have over two decades experience helping dentists and dental lab owners discover the unexpected worth of items such as extracted gold crowns and workbench “dust”. You’d be surprised how much “money” is hidden in carpets, collection traps and vacuum systems … it really adds up!During the last 28 years, Atlantic has grown from that tiny backyard shed into the impressive 15,000 square foot operation it is today.What sets Atlantic apart from other scrap processors is that we are an actual full-scale precious metal refinery. We never outsource any step of the smelting, assaying or refining processes, which cuts out the middleman, eliminates third party payouts and results in the highest scrap lot returns in the industry for our customers.

Our refinery processes a variety of gold, silver, platinum and palladium materials including:

• Dental solids such as crowns, bridges, sprues and casting buttons
• Bench sweeps, floor sweeps and carpeting
• Dust collector bags, vacuum bags and filters
• Platinum and palladium foil and wire
• Gold, silver and platinum jewelry, coins, bullion, bars and ingots
• Raw and liquid gold
• Stamped sterling silver flatware, silverware
• Candlesticks, christening sets and more
• NOTE: We do not accept gold-plated or silver-plated materials of any kind