Agnon has the wildest backstory of any refiner on this site. Founded in 1979 in Pompano Beach, Florida by Paul Traficante, the company recovered silver from X-ray film using sodium cyanide — and racked up pollution citations for dumping cyanide into storm drains. After a 1985 ownership change the violations kept coming: warehouse evacuations, five hospitalizations, contamination in the walls and soil, until regulators shut them down for good. The bars themselves are distinctive thick little pours, mostly sub-5 oz, with sequential serial numbers — the lowest-known weight is 4.2 oz.
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