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Recover Gold from Scrap Electronics
gavin  
Posted : Friday, 20 June 2014 3:47:28 PM(UTC)
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A subject I've been curious about for some time now. Quite a few videos on YouTube about different methods.

I'm curious if the value of gold recovered offsets all the chemical costs and potential cost of disposing of those chemicals?!
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Shilo  
Posted : Friday, 20 June 2014 4:22:33 PM(UTC)
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Hi Gavin,
Take a look at this forum: http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/

Sounds like you could make a profit but you will need to process a lot of scrap (economies of scale) and you wouldn't cover any labour involved. Getting enough PM scrap to make a profitable run would be the main problem.
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Posted : Friday, 20 June 2014 9:19:14 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Shilo Go to Quoted Post
Hi Gavin,
Take a look at this forum: http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/

Sounds like you could make a profit but you will need to process a lot of scrap (economies of scale) and you wouldn't cover any labour involved. Getting enough PM scrap to make a profitable run would be the main problem.


Cheers. Looks like you must have already researched this one then! So prob not the best option for a bit of winter prospecting then :P
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Posted : Friday, 20 June 2014 9:21:46 PM(UTC)
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Was economic with the older boards, but improved technology has greatly reduced the gold quantities in circuitry now.
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Posted : Tuesday, 24 June 2014 6:46:33 PM(UTC)
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Have you seen the way some people in India dig out the mud from storm water drains in search of gold. I think its only beneficial if your current income is less than $1 a day but you never know how much gold us Kiwi's are washing down the drains :D
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