Let me put this simple: PROS. -Quite easy to get old computer parts at a small cost. -Does need some specific laboratory hardware, but not that much. -Selling gold is also easy. CONS. -The chemicals you need in the process cost more than you can think (using low grade chemicals WILL give low grade gold) So, I had a small sack of computer ribbon & stripped off all of the gold connectors & after cutting the silver bits off, ended up with grams of gold plated connectors. That got put in a ml flask & mls HCL added, after the boiling slowed down I put it on a low heat, venting the HCL vapor off thru a hose into the sink plughole This has been a many times, asked question. dollars per computer if your recycling the entire thing is a fair standard price. anything more than that and your really not going to make any money. now if your buying computers to test and resell usable parts is a whole different story but i would still keep it at the same exact price for that. and just How I sort Gold, Palladium, Silver and Precious Metals after depopulating boards. eWaste Ben. K views 3 years ago. How to extract and purify gold from Judge Hands Ken Paxton Legal Setback. One ton of circuit boards from old e-waste can contain times more gold than a ton of mined gold. Now, scrappers like Wade Crawley in Sydney, Australia Help Support Gold Refining Forum: This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others. United States. Oct 11, #1 Here is my latest try at using milder chemicals to recover gold from computer scrap. Many thanks to deltaH and aga from [HOST] for the help they provided with Hello there everybody. I am starting to be conscious on gold from computer parts like video cards and ram chips. Is there gold on those like the connector pins? Certificates of Analysis for chemicals are available upon request. Use our request page at this link. W. Hampden Ave, Unit 14, Lakewood, CO USA. Store Open: Monday thru Friday. am to pm (MT) Sodium Metabisulfite and Urea are commonly purchased together by those extracting gold from scrap computer parts
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Step 3: Prepare Electronics for Gold Extraction. In this step, you will need to take your electronics device and pull out any PCBs from it. On the PCBs, look for gold color. When you find gold, strip all components off the PCB. If Mostly the gold is what you can see with the eye. Sometimes you may find gold in certain older black chips. You'll have to crack them open to see it. They are more on old military boards. The common black IC's don't really have any value that I know of. The easiest to get gold is in the CPU's & fingers. Pins you'll have to work for 1 remove the gold bearing connections and edges from scrap circuit boards using pliers and a strong back and forth motion to break the gold fingers from. Web since gold requires stronger chemicals to be dissolved, the nitric acid will melt all the plastic and metal parts of the circuit board without harming the gold bits Although it’s possible to refine gold out of computer parts, you’d have to go through a large number of keyboards, CPUs, wiring and other things to get a relatively small amount of gold, which would then be further refined down for your return
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#1. Hey guys hello again. I got my hands of some computer stuffs which I am not sure about it. I am refining only RAM /FIngers for now but one scrap guy told me From what i understand, modern computer parts use much less PM plating. Are newer broken parts still viable as sources for PM's. Like my gb harddrive is only 3 years old but has failed. Could i throw those plates in? While salvging computers should i try to focus on the older models? Military plating by class in microinches of plating thickness. 1 microinch = microns. So the range of gold may be from gold flash to gold plated to gold filled depending on application. Corrosion resistance (thin) to friction wear (thick). The screw things look very good, the other stuff is a mixed bag