Recovering gold from circuit boards and stuff?
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at
6:32 am
I have over 200 or so non working old NES cartridges and lots of other boards from other electronic what-nots . I broke one open and the fingers and lines seem to be gold. I heard you could recover gold from the boards and stuff, should I remove the flat black boxes and diodes or what-nots or will they melt down and evaporate?
Tagged with: black boxes • diodes • fingers • gold • what nots
Filed under: Electronic Circuit Diodes
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Gold is bought and sold by the ounce. Most reputable businesses won’t buy melted gold as it could be stolen. Mostly a waste of time as used gold isn’t worth much, and unless you have an unlimited supply of dead computers and such you won’t have enough to pay for time invested. My Dad had the same idea only it was catalytic converters, you crack them open, three different components… more trouble then it turned out to be worth.