Gold Recovery From Computer Chips

Discussions computers, internet and mobile technology (cell phones, smart phones, iPads).
Post Reply
Taco
Elite Upper Class Poster
Posts: 5411
Joined: July 9th, 2011, 9:30 am

Gold Recovery From Computer Chips

Post by Taco »

Here's a possible investment idea...

Paranoia is just having the right information. - William S. Burroughs
MrMan
Elite Upper Class Poster
Posts: 6675
Joined: July 30th, 2014, 7:52 pm

Re: Gold Recovery From Computer Chips

Post by MrMan »

$144 worth based on this, but the karats is a guess.

http://coinapps.com/gold/gram/calculator/

The video is about 10 minutes. But how long does it really take? If it took an hour, that is pretty good for one person doing all this work. But if it takes all day or two days, it starts to look much less appealing. Of course, if you have huge quantities of these mother boards, you could scale it up, dumping the stuff into vats. Some company has to be doing that now.

I wonder what they can do with all the acid and chemicals left over from this? What do you do with sulfuric-acid and melted plastic mixture without wrecking the environment and without making a dangerous work environment for yourself? It would be cool if they had a process to mix more chemicals in and end up with dry plastic pieces and where they could reuse the sulfuric acid again.
If all this were done in airtight machines, that would be good for the workers.

How much do these used circuit boards cost? I saw many years ago that a lot of the old computer waste ended up in Hong Kong.
Post Reply
  • Similar Topics
    Replies
    Views
    Last post

Return to “Computers, Internet, Mobile Technology”