Current metal values (was What's 6 Feet Tall and Weighs 1, 500 Pounds?)

This fleabay auction, 270808374360 claims to have backplane parts for palladium metal scrap value, by the way, someone else mentioned rhodium, who knows what else in the parts as well. With gold as the leading metal these days if someone gets hold of it the cheapest scrapping process is cyanide for gold, and I doubt that the other rare earths and metals are looked for. They are pretty tricky to pull out of the mess that remains after a cyanide high grading process w/o killing ones' self. A lot of the ones I knew had places "somewhere" which they went with their scrap, and they powdered the material and did the process. I suspect the residue cyanide was and is dumped near that spot. If one tries that in a legal method, I don't know if you'd make any money after you pay the costs of doing it in such a way as not to kill yourself, and legally dispose of the residue. We cleaned a lab in Newport Beach legally (where one list member works) and for about 15# of alcohol and acids it cost around $4500 for the disposal. Each 55 gallon drum disposal was around $500 for low grade stuff (material which was not things you could dump down the sink, but could put in a disposal drum and not kill people). obviously people extract gold value, but I always found that those who did so to be pretty slimy folk (the actual metal extraction people). Walked funny and talked with a slur, and worried about black helicopters following them. Jim