You will get gold for it on small scale and it is very rewarding to see all the hard work in that heavy beutiful yellow metal.
But for me it is the education that is so valuble.
Once you learn the electronic recovery and refining side of it, then moving on to higher grades of scrap, like karat or dental gold) if purchased when metals spot is low, and refined then sold when spot raises should be profitable, (or saved till our money has lost its value to buy bread with in hard times), and the education you get from the electronic recovery and refining should help here, because you are dealing with most all of the metals in solutions and learn how to deal with each of them.
the education is the real value,
so far I am not sure I have even broke even dollar wise, but feel very rich with what I have learned, and all of the Great people I have met on this forum, although I don't know what they look like or who they are, I feel that I know them in a way and feel they are a good group and friends.
maybe someday we will all be rich, but may still be poor dollar wise?
heck unless they bury me in a gold mine I'll probably not have all that much gold anyway.