4 Nov
2010
4 Nov
'10
11:15 p.m.
I am not saying there isn't gold value in these
but.... every person I've
run into doing the cpu for gold content thing usually knew very little about
computers and even less about how expensive/dangerous it is to extract the
gold. They just lived among piles and pile of old cpus and bits of circuit
boards always waiting to cash in one day. ?That and did drugs. Not all but,
many. I've run into a few.
I do not think you really know what you are talking about.
A relative few guys doing e-recycling use the "secret sauce" to
extract the gold, but *by*far* most use commercial refineries. They
send out the boards/pins/connectors/whatever, and typically they get a
large percentage back as cash or the gold itself. They also get cash
for the other metals (mostly copper) - something they do not get if
they do their own refining. The value of the copper content of circuit
boards will often exceed the value of the gold.
And yes, quite a few scrappers actually know what they are dealing
with when it comes to computers and technology. A fair number are
actually ex-engineers.
--
Will