29 May
2007
29 May
'07
7:55 a.m.
At 09:48 AM 5/29/2007, dwight elvey wrote:
There is a lot of gold in PC boards but in a 100 lbs of
boards I don't
think you'd find much more than about 1 foot by 1 foot of gold surface.
That is a lot of gold but not an ounce.
I'm under-informed, but I'd guess that the largest amount is within
IC chips themselves, with the bond-out wires and other surfaces inside
that were plated. Nextmost would be card edges and headers.
- John