2 Jun
2007
2 Jun
'07
10:33 a.m.
From: "Joshua Benedetto" <dasbooterror at
gmail.com>
As it goes, having actually run the gold scrapping grunt work (Read:
Play with the Aqua regia)
The reason you don't melt gold like that is the sheer amount of energy
you have to waste to do it! Not to mention contaminating your final
gold product with whatever crap is in the batch.
Hi Joshua
It seems like you are the person to ask. I did some calculations showing
that one would need a large area of PC boards covered with gold to
get to an ounce ( w/ typical plating ).
About how much gold would you expect to recover in 100 lbs of
average PC boards. My guess would put it in the 1/8 of an ounce
or less. Surely not enough to pay $500 for a pile of boards.
Dwight
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