Drill bits, tricones and button inserts
Retired drill bits, tricones and button inserts from rigs and rod strings.
Site cleanup service
Site cleanups:
clear the yard, keep the value.
A laydown yard that has been accumulating worn tooling and wear parts usually contains more than one material stream. Drill Bits Recyclers scopes the job, segregates specialty metal from general steel before anything moves, and records every bin against one job reference.
Why scope a cleanup first
Sort each material stream
before anything moves.
Mixed in with general steel, tungsten carbide, HSS, stainless and nickel alloy get priced like ordinary steel. Scoping the yard first shows what can be separated on site and what should be sorted at Malaga.
Small, clearly identified tooling can go straight into separate bins. Bulkier or mixed material can be containerised and sorted at the yard. The right approach depends on volume, access and contamination.
Contamination is handled by deduction rather than a flat penalty. If a load comes in at one tonne and an assessed 150 kilograms of it is dirt, wood, plastic or other non-complying material, payment is based on the remaining 850 kilograms rather than the gross weight. Keeping streams separate on site is the easiest way to avoid that deduction in the first place.
A site walkthrough ahead of a cleanup is free, but it needs to be booked; the yard is not staffed around the clock, and a scoping visit works better with someone expecting you. We don’t take hazardous or radioactive material, biohazards, general waste, pressure vessels, oils or coolants as part of a cleanup, so flag anything like that before the job is scoped.
What we recover
Common finds on a mining
or workshop cleanup.
Our process
How a multi-bin cleanup moves
from scope to settlement.
Every container carries one job reference. After weighing and grading, the customer receives one itemised settlement covering the full cleanup.
Send site photos or book a walkthrough so we can map each material stream.
Step 1Specialty metals are separated from general steel before pricing.
Step 2Each stream goes into the bin, pod or drum suited to the material.
Step 3Every container is weighed and reported under one job reference.
Step 401
Scope the yard, by site visit or photos, and agree what's sorted where
02
Segregate specialty metal from general steel, on site or at the Malaga yard
03
Containerise into bins, pods or drums matched to each material
04
Weigh, log and settle every bin against one job reference
Who we work with
Mining, drilling, workshop and civil
operations.
Every cleanup
Why work with
Drill Bits Recyclers.
A cleanup moves more bins and more mixed material than a single collection, so each load is weighed, sorted and recorded the same way.
01
Scoped before anything moves
We look at the yard first, so nothing gets sorted twice.
02
Segregation that protects the specialty fraction
Tungsten carbide, HSS and nickel alloys never end up averaged into general steel.
03
One record across every bin
A multi-bin job settles against a single job reference, not a pile of separate tickets.
04
Regional reach
Backload routes reach Perth and regional WA sites alike.
Responsible recovery
What a sorted clearance
keeps out of general steel.
1.3M+ kg
Recycled since 2022
Recovered material kept separate from general steel since 2022, tallied here.
22 to 100%
Impact reduction, by category (Furberg et al. 2019)
Peer-reviewed figures for hard-metal recycling, which is what a sorted clearance keeps out of the mixed pile.
Every load
Logged by job reference
Every clearance job carries its own weight and recovery record, however many bins it fills.
Reported impact reduction for hard-metal recycling
Journal of Cleaner Production 209 (2019): Furberg, Arvidsson and Molander's peer-reviewed hard-metal recycling research.
Low reported figure Furberg et al. (2019)
22%
High reported figure Depends on the metal recovered
100%
The range moves with the metal and the impact category studied, however a clearance gets sorted. No yard-specific reduction is claimed.
What a clearance keeps separate
BinEvery bin weighed at Malaga
NoteRecovery recorded against the job
StudyFurberg et al. (2019)
Scope22 to 100% reduction range, by category
Scope the yard before anything moves
Book your scope.
We'll take it from there.
Send photos or book a site visit and we’ll tell you what’s separable, what containers you’ll need, and how settlement works across the job.