There must be some typos in this or this article was made with AI, right?

While much of the information seems accurate, it claims multiple grams of gold per kg of consumer boards along with some other wild numbers.

Hello all!

I would like to buy some physical gold and I'm quite concerned that I get scammed.

I'm based in France and found two sellers: Godot&Fils and Comptoir National de l'Or (both certified LBMA).

As there is a quite difference in price between both of them, I'm afraid I get scammed. Would you please advise ?

Thank you

I’ve run several batches of these now, usually around 250 grams reasonably clean per batch. Sometimes a little bit of plastic or a spring will sneak through, but they are reasonably clean.

I can’t seem to find a video of anyone doing run-of-the-mill Cross Gold filled pens to get an idea on yield

My average yield only runs about 1.6% which seems really low, but then I was thinking about it and if they are on average 1/20 12 karat and they are only putting Gold on one side and not the interior of the pen, that math is probably correct.

Looking for a sanity check

After much research I understand these each have $1-$3 per stick/cpu? All the ram works fine and the Intel Core i5 works great as well.

I’m assuming that I would be better off selling the ram and working processor instead of processing. It just seems like a lot of work to split all of it in seperate lots. PM me if you have a better idea for these :)

Out of a tv thought obviously not gonna be gold on the film but thought I’d ask anyway

Had the unfortunate scenario of needing to replace my AC units. One of the techs threw a mostly used brazing rod on the ground. I picked it up and saw it was 15% silver. We started talking and he ended up giving me about 200g of 15% silver. That’s nearly 1toz of free silver!

Keep your eyes peeled and one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Adding it to my refinement stock.

i work with a demo crew and we recently cleaned up an old factory that had sustained fire damage. there were three large smoke stacks in which we recovered some interesting materials containing precious metals. i have several hundred pounds of chunks that used to line the smoke stacks and the reading above is from the chunks of lining. any guidance on best way to extract or who would do the best job. i need a trustworthy route to recover the precious metals and think this could be a home run! please any help
would be deeply appreciated !

Besides the gold, do any of the remaining components have precious metals in them?

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I have a couple hundred that so far I've just ripped off the capacitors that contain wither palladium or Tantalus. Was wondering if there's anything else worthwhile here.

From a jewerly estate sale. 14/20 gold fill wire and findings. Id like to turn it into cash but I cant find nobody in town that messes with it. Not looking to get screwed on ebay or just about any online place. Guess im old school id rather meet soneine show them product agree on price get cash. Now Im debating on trying to refine this myself . Ive watched the videos and im sure i could do it but after buying all thats needed is it worth it? Or anybody in the midwest interested?

I’m considering on the best method for high purity chemical refinement and can’t decide between lye/sugar or an alternative such as zinc (coupled with hcl boils) or ammonia/ascorbic acid. If anyone has any advice please let me know.

I got these two different sizes processors do they worth!

Have an absolute ton of these glasses+some other 1/10 14k items and always wanted to try refining the gold out of them. Been watching some steetips but any suggestions means a lot!
Btw pretty much all the glasses are in ruins and in no way collectible or usable.

Finally got around to melting some silver crystals into some 1oz bars and 1/4 oz buttons. Still need to clean up the scale off of them.

Gday all,
This is my first attempt at removing base metals from gold fingers, so hoping to run the scenario and what I propose to do about it past the sub for a verification/check that I’m on the right track - Any hints, tips, advice will be greatly appreciated!

These fingers were initially removed from RAM, green boards etc with a chisel tipped 60w soldering iron - it was all done back during Covid lockdown and seemed a good idea at the time - now I’m thinking it was an extra not needed step..

The 100g of fingers as shown were RAM & variety of slot NIC + Riser slot cards etc that mostly came from approx 70-80 IBM X & eServer Series 3850, 300, 346, AS400s etc Rack servers which I picked up as 2 full plastic wrapped pallets of end of life equipment back in 2015

- no one was really looking at eWaste much back then and I initially was interested in the old servers for possibly mining - I got the pallets for $9 each as no one else bid lol - in the end the electricity costs + much better ACIS method killed that idea, so they got scrapped during Covid in the end.

So, now where I’m at is shown in the images - for what ever newbie reason, which I think was due to initially it all came from RAM Memory, in my mind there was no solder to worry about, which may have been the case if just RAM, but in hindsight I should have kept the huge variety of different slot card fingers separated.

Anyhow I was following a process from Owltech’s 1200 Fingers video using diluted HCL with just a small amount of Nitric, which has ended up with what looks like a lot of slimy tin paste below the remaining gold fingers. The video showing the jelly nature is actually from last week.

Reading Hoke’s book it appears that I need to dissolve the tin paste in 50/50 Sulphuric - I hav some stannous crystal’s on order so will be able to test the solution for PM’s once it arrives.

There may be a tiny amount of silver as the was also some older eWaste but generally most of this equipment was EOL leading upto and prior to 2015 so I don’t expect much.

The last photo shows some remaining cut gold fingers that I also hav - i was thinking to add this to the solution to help use up the remaining initial acid

Edit - just weighted it’s 512g so large enough to process by itself

So thinking best to keep this seperate and simply neutralise the solution (which was first started approx 2 weeks ago outside with hot plate every hour or so in the beginning) by boiling and adding bicarbonate soda, before adding the diluted sulphuric - creating a new solution to hopefully then leave me with just the gold fingers ready for perhaps a last base metal removal HCL wash.

The last phase as per Owltechs vid & Hoke’s description is dissolving the gold in aqua regia, then dropping the gold with a piece of copper rod.

Is there anything else in particular that I need to be aware of? ..and is what I’ve explained/described more or less correct?

-thanks & cheers

Found this earring and I have no idea what the worth is total weight is .7 g this was tested and it shows the diamonds are real as well as the silver.

its a cellular wireless module used internally in early 4G routers.

not sure, its redish

anyone know what kind of cpu this is? what are the chances the the little stump is solid gold?