I have processed a few hundred of these.
Some of them have some really sweet gold contacts and antennas inside, and all of them have boards. Some of the boards have lots of gold contacts.
If you scrap them, trick is to just get through them fast. The isn't much in one pager, so just get it out and recycle the case. I was doing about 100 in 2 hours.
I sold the boards on eBay for gold recovery and ended up always doing better than $5/lb on them. The gold plated springs and antennas and stuff, I still have. They look like ideal material to feed a reverse-plating cell.....
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