https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/ Great Discoveries Channel Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:14:25 +0000 hourly 1800 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-825 Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:14:25 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-825 Seeing some “experts” here commenting as though the effort isn’t worth it. I assure you it is, or small businesses wouldn’t be “securely e-wasting” the old electronic stuff. This has been going on for about 30 years. I set up a huge plan for LA for an outfit in Ohio.

]]> https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-726 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 02:27:18 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-726 Not really! A lot of what looks like Gold, is really Phosphor Bronze plating. Only a few connectors on a typical MoBo are really Gold plated. Most are the Phosphor Bronze plating. A fool and his money.

]]> https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-725 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:59:08 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-725 Except for scrap dealers, you didn’t give us the recyclers that would buy these boards. What good is telling us we’re harming the environment without sending us in the right direction.

]]> https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-720 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 20:16:44 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-720 Also anybody not that the books are placed in cabinet backs in, which is also unusal.

]]> https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-708 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 06:03:05 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-708 Iron drum huh ?

]]> https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-702 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 02:18:22 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-702 I don’t think we should let old electronics go to land fills. So let someone profit from them ..

]]> https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-700 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 01:50:02 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-700 The thin gold plating on any chip is .003 microns. This is China gold and basically worthless. It would take over 2,500 motherboards shaved down or melted to make $100 worth of gold.

]]> https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-698 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 01:22:19 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-698 All the motherboards dissolve and the gold rises to the surface? WRONG!!!! The gold would be at the bottom as it is dense.

]]> https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-697 Sun, 06 Oct 2024 01:00:37 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-697 This is a reminder to aspiring home scrappers. Most tech parts like CPUs, motherboards, and cell phones have, on average, a few singular dollars of gold, are worth more for parts, and most common methods of precious metal extraction are hazardous.

]]> https://dailygalaxy.com/2024/10/electronic-waste-contains-valuable-22-carat-gold-sought-scrap-dealers-despite-widespread-disposal/#comment-693 Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:15:39 +0000 https://dailygalaxy.com/?p=12110#comment-693 You failed to say the monatery value in various devices.

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