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Sell exotic metals with your carbide, or on their own
Carbide is our main line, and we are exotic metal buyers too, taking exotic metals scrap of every kind: tungsten, titanium, nickel and cobalt alloys, tantalum, niobium, molybdenum and high-speed steel. Pick a metal below, or put it on the quote form next to your carbide.
Metals that earn their keep where steel gives up
What these metals share is the job they do: heat, wear, corrosion or weight that ordinary steel cannot handle. USGS describes superalloys, the nickel, iron and cobalt-based family, as alloys that keep most of their strength even after long exposure above 650 C (1,200 F), and lists chromium, cobalt, iron and nickel as their usual base with smaller amounts of molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, titanium and tungsten.
Several are on the federal government's Final 2025 List of Critical Minerals, published November 7, 2025: tungsten, titanium, tantalum, niobium, nickel, cobalt and chromium. Molybdenum is not on it. OSHA's scrap recycling guidance files exotic metals, those holding elements such as cobalt, titanium and tungsten, under nonferrous metals.
- Tungsten: pure tungsten, and the tungsten heavy alloys USGS lists in weights, counterweights and radiation shielding.
- Titanium: solids, sheet and turnings.
- Nickel alloys: the Inconel, Hastelloy and Monel families.
- Cobalt alloys, Stellite among them (ITIA gives Stellite 31 as an example of a cobalt-based superalloy).
- Tantalum and niobium, and molybdenum.
- High-speed steel drills, taps and tool bits.
Sources: USGS Circular 1196-Z: superalloys (rev. 2009); Federal Register, Final 2025 List of Critical Minerals; OSHA 3348: Metal scrap recycling; USGS Circular 1196-R: tungsten (2011); ITIA Tungsten Newsletter, March 2017.
Exotic metals scrap that turns up beside carbide
Most sellers find these metals in the same places as their carbide. A tool crib that wears out carbide end mills also wears out high-speed steel: USGS lists drills, milling cutters, reamers, taps and saw blades among old tool steel scrap. A saw shop that sharpens Stellite-tipped blades, which OSHA notes give off cobalt-bearing dust when sharpened, ends up with Stellite as well as carbide tips. A shop machining superalloy parts fills bins with turnings, which USGS found were the largest volume of superalloy scrap in its study of 2000 data.
Keep each metal in its own bag or bin, and keep alloys apart from each other where you can. USGS notes new titanium scrap is usually kept separate by material specification and remelted to the chemistry wanted. A bin of one alloy is simple to describe and quote; a bin of five is a sorting job.
Sources: USGS Circular 1196-R: tungsten (2011); OSHA: cobalt dust health hazards; USGS Circular 1196-Y: titanium (2010).
Putting exotic metals on a carbide quote
It works exactly as it does for carbide. On the quote form, tick exotic metals and type what you have in the line that opens, such as titanium turnings or nickel alloy solids, with a rough weight and a few photos. A grade stamp, a mill cert or the alloy name off a drawing helps; if you do not have one, say so.
Inconel, Hastelloy, Monel and Stellite appear on this site only as the common names of alloy families. The trademarks belong to their owners, and we have no connection with them.
Ship it to us from any state and we pay the shipping, or in every city in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada we come and pick it up. We pay cash where state law allows; how selling works covers the rules. And if the same shelf holds a pail of worn inserts, put it on the same quote: carbide in any form is still what we buy most.
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Selling steps
From photos and a weight to getting paid
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Send a few photos and a rough weight. From any state, you ship it and we cover the shipping; in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, we drive out to you.