7 Sep
2011
7 Sep
'11
12:46 p.m.
At 10:23 PM 9/6/2011, TeoZ wrote:
The websites for gold recovery pretty much say anything
gold plated (unless it is over sterling silver that is recoverable) isn't worth the
energy to recover. Gold plating is so precise these days you can plate a layer a few atoms
thick. I figured some chips had gold interconnects so melting a small pile of them would
get you a decent amount of gold after chemical separation.
And do you have some experience or evidence about the thickness of gold
plating on expensive computer equipment manufactured in the 1970s when
gold was considerably less expensive?
- John