johnleivers15
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Hello everyone
I have a question about reclaiming gold from plated items mainly gold plated plastics. The company i work for has recently scraped the idea of buying in plastic gold plated items because of the amount of failed items in QC misshapen etc instead we now plate our own stuff using stainless steel replicas of the plastic items. Last week we had a clear out of the stores area to revamp the rooms (boss hates clutter) any unused failed items got skipped including the gold plated items. Thinking there was money to be made i asked the main gaffer (company owner) if i could have the plated items that was destine for land fill and he agreed but said he doubted that they are worth the cost of reclaiming the gold and joked about cash for gold companies. Anyways I contacted a company about the items and they just wanted to know the weight of the items altogether, how many and not much more. The reply was they charge £100 to recover the gold and he said it may struggle to even cover the recovery cost ! he may well be right but........how can he accurately say without knowing the surface area of each item just by weight alone? When these items was sent to a company to be plated they charged 85p each to do them. my question is........ dose anyone know any better? will it be worth it? roughly what will it be worth? lots of questions i know.
Here are the important bits-
There are two different types of items
First item has a surface area of 26.21 cm² it has a thickness 1 micron mµ of gold. I have x 4,573 of these.
Second item has a surface area of 10.38 cm² it also has a thickness of 1 micron of gold. I have X 3332 of these.
They all fit into two bin bags and weigh 12.5 kg.
Some are over-plated but that cannot be taken into account.
Any help would be much appreciated even if you are just confirming what the company guy already told me and what my gaffer said :roll:
Cheers John
I have a question about reclaiming gold from plated items mainly gold plated plastics. The company i work for has recently scraped the idea of buying in plastic gold plated items because of the amount of failed items in QC misshapen etc instead we now plate our own stuff using stainless steel replicas of the plastic items. Last week we had a clear out of the stores area to revamp the rooms (boss hates clutter) any unused failed items got skipped including the gold plated items. Thinking there was money to be made i asked the main gaffer (company owner) if i could have the plated items that was destine for land fill and he agreed but said he doubted that they are worth the cost of reclaiming the gold and joked about cash for gold companies. Anyways I contacted a company about the items and they just wanted to know the weight of the items altogether, how many and not much more. The reply was they charge £100 to recover the gold and he said it may struggle to even cover the recovery cost ! he may well be right but........how can he accurately say without knowing the surface area of each item just by weight alone? When these items was sent to a company to be plated they charged 85p each to do them. my question is........ dose anyone know any better? will it be worth it? roughly what will it be worth? lots of questions i know.
Here are the important bits-
There are two different types of items
First item has a surface area of 26.21 cm² it has a thickness 1 micron mµ of gold. I have x 4,573 of these.
Second item has a surface area of 10.38 cm² it also has a thickness of 1 micron of gold. I have X 3332 of these.
They all fit into two bin bags and weigh 12.5 kg.
Some are over-plated but that cannot be taken into account.
Any help would be much appreciated even if you are just confirming what the company guy already told me and what my gaffer said :roll:
Cheers John