I've been looking into getting many metals out of recycling , 1st was gold because of cost .
I have not done any other processing , except mechanical of e-waste , separating boards , processors , test equipment , just classifying so far .
But also looking ahead to different ways to end up with bars of gold , silver etc.
Leaning toward using the least amount of chemicals , fuels - basically cost of materials , maybe more labor but I'm good at finding easier ways of mechanical separation , I use to do under water suction dredging for gold .
Back to the main question , watching videos , reading forums and doing the scrapping , I am seeing [ simple numbers just get the idea started ] lets say you chemically remove gold from what ever , like connector pins .
Well you end up with going through 100 lbs of pins and get 1 gram of gold .
OK here we are , that means we had 99++ lbs of copper under the gold , lets say at $2.50 per lb , we had $250 worth of copper , that is now in solution of some type , so reclaiming that is worth while .
Let alone some of the other substances , rather than just focusing on just the gold .
So what is needed to drop out the other goodies of our mixes ???
John
I have not done any other processing , except mechanical of e-waste , separating boards , processors , test equipment , just classifying so far .
But also looking ahead to different ways to end up with bars of gold , silver etc.
Leaning toward using the least amount of chemicals , fuels - basically cost of materials , maybe more labor but I'm good at finding easier ways of mechanical separation , I use to do under water suction dredging for gold .
Back to the main question , watching videos , reading forums and doing the scrapping , I am seeing [ simple numbers just get the idea started ] lets say you chemically remove gold from what ever , like connector pins .
Well you end up with going through 100 lbs of pins and get 1 gram of gold .
OK here we are , that means we had 99++ lbs of copper under the gold , lets say at $2.50 per lb , we had $250 worth of copper , that is now in solution of some type , so reclaiming that is worth while .
Let alone some of the other substances , rather than just focusing on just the gold .
So what is needed to drop out the other goodies of our mixes ???
John