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    gold in E-waste??

    i've been looking at some of the threads and see people talking about gold being in laptops and other computers. i've also heard its in cell phones, where is it? i've never seen it or maybe i just don't know what to look for. help?



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    Another one bites the dust. Or should I say concrete in this case. Flame suit on!!!

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    The boards containing actual Gold Bullion are really hard to find. It takes years of sifting through thousands of pound of boards to finally "strike it rich".

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigdog72 View Post
    i've been looking at some of the threads and see people talking about gold being in laptops and other computers. i've also heard its in cell phones, where is it? i've never seen it or maybe i just don't know what to look for. help?
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    This is where I would start, lots of discussions here on back. Just like was mentioned in another post you have to want to read cause we're not going to make you read it. See the pins?? There's pins and fingers among others.


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    Quote Originally Posted by bigdog72 View Post
    i've been looking at some of the threads and see people talking about gold being in laptops and other computers. i've also heard its in cell phones, where is it? i've never seen it or maybe i just don't know what to look for. help?
    It's inside, you have to look inside. Go to ebay and type these keywords to search for "gold recovery". You will find that most of the posts have to do with people, usually asking too much for it, selling e-waste. You will see a fairly good representation of material that is generally, for the most part, worth to process and recover the values in PMs from.

    You can skip over the hard drive platters because they don't really have anything in them worth the effort in recovering. The rest are probably good examples to learn by. You will probably see cell phone boards, ceramic chips, pins, etc etc etc.

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    so it's inside some ic's and cpu's? along with some connecting pins

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    Here you go. gold on a board.


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    Forget the gold...its Leverite you should be looking for.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigdog72 View Post
    so it's inside some ic's and cpu's? along with some connecting pins
    Yup, yer on the right track now BD, a little more searching and reading on this awesome forum and U'll be tons wiser in that section of scrapping. Do you scrap anything now besides copper? lb

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    yes, what ever i can find! haha i generally know what to look for but copper and aluminum are the high dollar ones for me, i don't yet have that much income of scrap but i'm hoping to change that soon

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER View Post
    Forget the gold...its Leverite you should be looking for.
    I have been saving up to by some 3D glasses to find it.


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