Hi - Years ago I salvaged a lot of high grade telcom boards. I hauled them to Cascade Refining in Utah and they paid 85% of recovered gold and silver. I checked several things and they always seemed to be real close to that - never felt ripped off.

I'm wondering what the various dealers who buy outright are paying as far as a percentage of gold and silver recovered. I know that boards all vary, but say just on the basis of 386 CPU chips. I see that Boardsort pays $123 a pound for them. How much gold value are they recovering from this pound of 386 chips.

Get my drift. I'd just like to know if I'm getting 10% or 80% of PM value or somewhere in between. I'm hoping that boardsort, easyrecycle and others will chime in.

Thanks for your time

Mike