Has anyone heard about gold recovery?

Hello everyone
I was surfing through the internet and saw a video on "Gold Recovery"
It was about Gold recovery from the Computer......
But didn't understood anything

Well post your ideas about how to recover gold or silver...

Thanks in advance
Sayan

Computer parts contain some ammount of rare metals, including gold. Unless you have a factory and are sitting on this: http://www.gizmodo.in/photo/53844780/indiamodo/Japanwill-use-e-waste-to-make-Olympic-medals-in-2020.jpg?172858 it is somehow not very useful to you.

yes, I think you need something like 1000 computers to get a small button of gold and a little bar of silver.

Quote: "neilithic"​yes, I think you need something like 1000 computers to get a small button of gold and a little bar of silver.

​+ You have to think what will you do with ton of other metals.

They do get a fair about of copper out of it, it's the plastic casings that you have to find some way of disposing.

The videos I watched said that they got 0.5 grams of gold per hard drive, and they needed 9000 CDs to get 1 ounce of silver. Not worth it.

9000 CDs??????
Its a huge amount

Yes.

I believe most of the gold requires a chemical process to separate the metals , to recover the gold.. Unless done by a qualified person, can be dangerous and bad for the environment. Your better off getting a metal detector.
Its a great hobby , and after the initial expense of buying a metal detector, fairly inexpensive.
Check local laws.

$7. per pound of computer circuit boards is what my son got the last time he sold a couple hundred pounds. He owns a computer repair shop.

That doesn't sound right as PCB's vary by component weight, one could have a heatsink which would make the board considerably heavier. But if you say that is what it is, then I cannot argue with it.
The CPU/processor pins are the main source of the gold and would need chemical refining on an industrial scale. While it is achievable, you would do better panning for gold in a river than thinking you can get anywhere with scrap PCB's at home in the garage.

It's not as difficult as some on here would have you think. Plenty of youtube videos on it. Old RAM is a good source. That said, it is pretty dangerous if you're clueless, and you need a safe outdoor area for a lot of the steps, as well as gas masks and stuff. Some of the required chemicals may also not be freely available. (In the uk you need an 'explosives precursor license' for a lot of them)

Or a car battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgGhNfJfSK0

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Quote: "oggy"it is pretty dangerous if you're clueless, and you need a safe outdoor area for a lot of the steps, as well as gas masks and stuff. Some of the required chemicals may also not be freely available. (In the uk you need an 'explosives precursor license' for a lot of them)

hahaha.... That doesn't sound like a cakewalk

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Quote: "Fluke"​That doesn't sound right as PCB's vary by component weight, one could have a heatsink which would make the board considerably heavier. But if you say that is what it is, then I cannot argue with it.
​The CPU/processor pins are the main source of the gold and would need chemical refining on an industrial scale. While it is achievable, you would do better panning for gold in a river than thinking you can get anywhere with scrap PCB's at home in the garage.

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I actually know a lot about this, because I looked into it when I found some gold boards, and there's actually more money in the titanium on a circuitboard then anything else. You would need volume and also need to know how to identify each component, And separate them out. Old electronic equipment can have lots of gold in it, but Today there is very little gold. Here's the gold boards I've had sitting around for a long time.

P.S. If you collect a bunch of boards you can just sell them without the other trouble. Then just buy some gold with the money.

Quote: "redsmithstudios"​P.S. If you collect a bunch of boards you can just sell them without the other trouble. Then just buy some gold with the money.

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My buddy Matt (Yeackle) has been doing exactly this. It's probably not a process which close neighbors would appreciate so it's not really suitable for the densely packed Tampa Bay area but I'd like to give it a try once we have some more space around us. I'll be picking his brains for the best methods.

I read that there is about $3 worth of silver in the average cell phone, plus a small amount of gold in those fraudulent catalytic converters the government dolts insist on, so there plenty of free money lying around. I like free money.

Plus I reckon it's an ecologically sound hobby as long as you are not doing anything dumb like polluting your own drinking water. One of the "must have" features of our relocation is access to clean, running water right off the mountain tops so it would be pretty stupid to then go and fill it full of toxins. I can drink the government supplied tap water with all the nice lead, mercury, bromide, fluoride and other toxins added to keep people docile if I want to be poisoned. I reckon it all depends on how dirty the process is. I'm pretty sure the rewards will be minimal, certainly not enough to fouling your water, soil and air with poison.