Avimetal’s pitch deck presents the company as a U.S.-based mineral processing and precious-metals technology business focused on recovering valuable metals from ores, tailings, slag, stockpiles, and e-waste that legacy smelters cannot process efficiently. The deck highlights Avimetal’s 14-stage modular processing line, which combines crushing, separation, plasma processing, cyclone electrowinning, electrorefining, environmental control, and containerized deployment to produce refined metals from multiple feedstock types. It positions the opportunity around declining ore grades, stranded legacy stockpiles, critical minerals demand, and the need for faster, lower-cost, relocatable processing plants. Avimetal’s business model includes equipment sales, joint ventures, and toll processing, with growth plans moving from pilot validation to regional commercial deployment and later expansion into rare earths and battery metals.
Unlocking the Metals That
Legacy Smelters Leave Behind
A U.S.-based mineral processing and precious-metals technology company delivering a complete, modular, end-to-end ore-processing line — from raw feed through final refined ingot.
The Next Century of Metals Will Come From Smarter Recovery
The next century of metals supply will not come from new mines — it will come from smarter recovery of what's already on the ground. Avimetal exists to make that recovery economically viable, at scale, for any feedstock type.
What We Do
- → Design, manufacture & operate a 14-stage modular processing line
- → Process gold ore, PGMs, rare earths, copper concentrate, and e-waste
- → Deploy as a fixed plant or fully containerized mobile unit
- → Operate with as few as 3–5 technicians per shift
Built By
Scientists, metallurgists, geologists, and process engineers with decades of combined experience. Led by James Gim, founder and CEO, with commercial relationships spanning the United States, Korea, and the Middle East.
A Structural Crisis in Global Mining
The global mining industry faces a convergence of forces that conventional capital and technology cannot solve. Capital costs exceed $1 billion per new smelter. Permitting takes a decade. Ore grades are falling. The industry is running out of easy answers.
Declining Ore Grades
Primary ore grades have fallen precipitously across gold, copper, and PGM deposits. The ores accessible under conventional methods represent a shrinking fraction of total global resource.
Stranded Legacy Stockpiles
Hundreds of millions of tons of slag, tailings, and historic stockpiles — some since the 1800s — contain economically meaningful quantities of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and rare earths that traditional pyrometallurgy cannot reach.
E-Waste Complexity
Urban mining feeds like printed circuit boards contain higher metal concentrations than virgin ore — but in complex forms requiring multi-stage hydrometallurgical and electrochemical separation no legacy smelter offers.
Systemic Recovery Loss
The industry loses 15–20% of already-low recoveries to inefficiency. It cannot respond to surging critical mineral demand for EVs, defense, and the energy transition with legacy infrastructure.
A Complete Modular Processing Line, Built From First Principles
Avimetal has engineered a 14-stage ore-processing line that addresses the full spectrum of challenges — from liberation-grade crushing through final refined ingot — without water-intensive or chemically wasteful approaches. Every stage is a stand-alone module, combinable or operable independently.
Proprietary Platforms That Redefine Recovery Economics
Avimetal's technology processes ores down to 100 g/t — well below the threshold at which legacy operations shut down. Each platform was developed in-house and is integral to the 14-stage line.
Cold Fusion Plasma
Extracts precious metals at near-ambient pressure with dramatically lower energy input than conventional smelting. Processes complex sulfidic and arsenical ores that standard furnaces cannot handle economically.
Hot Plasma Smelting
Handles refractory feeds and slags no arc or induction furnace can reach. Purpose-built for the world's largest untapped category: historic slag piles at legacy smelter sites across the U.S., Korea, and the Middle East.
Cyclone Electrowinning
Delivers significantly higher current efficiency and lower energy than conventional flat-plate cells. Cyclone geometry maximizes mass transfer, accelerating deposition rates at commercial throughput. Up to 147 kg Au/hr per 20-cell module.
Rotating Electrowinning
Complements Cyclone EW for feedstocks requiring enhanced mixing at low metal concentrations — particularly valuable in leach solutions from e-waste and low-grade tailings. Delivers up to 99.8% purity.
Cyclone Electrorefining
Provides final-stage purification to commercial specification, producing London Bullion Market-compatible outputs directly from the line without secondary refining.
Tornado Mill
Proprietary vortex micronization delivering consistent micron and sub-micron output for minerals, metals, and advanced materials. Up to 5,000 kg/hr. Minimal wear and heat buildup vs. ball mills.
Four High-Value Markets, One Integrated Platform
Avimetal serves four distinct market segments, each representing a multi-billion-dollar addressable opportunity with structural demand driven by the energy transition, defense priorities, and the formalization of historically informal mining activity.
Precious Metals Recovery
Gold, silver, and PGMs from primary ore, tailings, and slag — including historic stockpiles unprocessed since the 1800s. Demand is inelastic; prices are near all-time highs. Avimetal processes sub-200 g/t feeds no competitor can address.
Rare Earths
A domestic U.S. alternative to Chinese-controlled rare-earth supply chains for permanent magnets, defense applications, and EV motors. Strategically critical with active government procurement interest and strong price premiums for non-Chinese supply.
Base Metals Upgrading
The PGM-enriched copper ingot product stacks recovery economics — combining copper smelting throughput with platinum-group recovery in a single operation, delivering a blended product commanding premium pricing over standard copper cathode.
Urban Mining / E-Waste
Printed circuit boards and IC chips contain metal concentrations exceeding virgin ore — but require multi-stage processing no legacy smelter offers. Avimetal recovers far higher value per ton, making e-waste a high-margin feed stream.
Three Revenue Channels: Equipment, JV & Toll Processing
Avimetal's commercial model generates both immediate capital-equipment revenue and long-tail royalty-style recurring cash flow — without commodity price exposure on the equipment side.
Equipment Sales
Engineered modules and complete processing lines sold to mining companies, refiners, and government partners. Revenue includes equipment margin plus engineering, installation, and commissioning fees. Drives immediate capital recognition.
Joint Ventures
Partnering with feedstock owners — particularly holders of stranded slag piles and historic tailings — providing technology in exchange for a share of recovered metal revenue. High-margin recurring cash flow. Pipeline includes several million tons under LOI or MOU.
Toll Processing
Company-operated pilot and commercial plants accept third-party feedstock for a processing fee. Generates revenue from day one of commissioning while building a reference dataset that accelerates equipment sales and JV negotiations.
Phase-One Economics: Compelling Returns at Conservative Assumptions
A single 5 TPD line processing feedstock at 500 g/t gold generates monthly revenue in the millions of dollars at current gold prices, with gross margins above 50% after all variable costs.
to commission a fully operational processing line
at conservative 500 g/t gold feed
three ~$1M tranches to full commercial plant
at current gold prices and contracted grades
From Pilot Validation to Regional Commercial Deployment
A phased approach de-risks investor capital while building the reference data, contractual pipeline, and operational team required for commercial scale.
Phase 1 — Pilot Plant
Commission full 14-stage line at commercial-relevant throughput. Generate independent recovery and economic data. Build investor and customer due-diligence reference. Activate toll-processing revenue from day one.
Phase 2 — Commercial Plant
Deploy first regional commercial plant. Launch containerized mobile units for tailings and government stockpile contracts. Execute signed and pending feedstock joint ventures. Scale field-services and engineering team.
Phase 3 — Critical Minerals
Expand into rare-earth separation and battery-metals processing. Pursue government procurement for domestic critical-mineral supply chain. Build multi-plant, multi-continent operating footprint.
How Capital Is Deployed
Growth capital raised funds pilot construction and commissioning, initial working capital, team expansion, and IP protection.
Join Us in Building the Recovery Infrastructure
of the Next Era
Avimetal invites qualified strategic and financial partners to participate in growth capital to commission the pilot plant, complete containerized-line certification, and execute on signed and pending feedstock joint ventures.