See Laser Steves web site, I think he had a video on depopulating boards, also you may see the acid peroxide step is something you could handle, if you choose not to use acids then prepare your scrap for high gold content, cut fingers, pull pins and CPU, remove integrated circuits, SMD capacitor and resistors, and so on, keep each type of material sorted, the unused portion of your circuit board may be sold also as scrap, or just given to recycle bins,
Now people will buy your materials for recovery, you could even ask for payment in gold, or go buy gold with the cash generated from your work.
your smart to try and get some gold with the paper dollar bill worth only pennies and the number of pennies it is worth is becoming less as long as government is printing more dollar bills, scrapping circuit boards and other scrap metal can make you some money and can be done when you are not working at your day job, but that day job would be your main source to accumulate gold, even a young person can work, I know some funny minded people think that that would be cruel and children should not work, but that is just a lot of modern bull droppings, I was raised working, and raised my children working, young children need to learn to work, my youngest daughter worked hard for me as a child (both my girls did) she also learned to save her money (something I was not so good at) at 12 years old she got real jobs one working the grape fields for a vinyard and her other job baby sitting premature new born babies, I told her to put her money into silver and she did, at 17 years old she cashed in her silver (made a little bit off of the silver value rising over the years but not to much), well she put the 10,000 dollars she worked for onto a 6 acre piece of land, I borrowed money on my house and developed her property (she paid off that loan), we logged it put in a road, put an old used double wide trailer and fixed it up, had a well drilled, and we installed the well (I witch the well by the way, her well is 24 GPM, some may think witching for water or pipes or electrical wiring is nonsense but I can guarantee it works, but just like refining there is some things about it that are just bull), we put in a septic (double tank with sand filter and leach lines) we put up an electric pole meter base and breaker panel and underground wire to another meter base and outside breaker panel for the house and well house, well at the age of 23,she owns that property free and clear except for yearly taxes (guess we always have to pay uncle Sam rent on our property he wants what we worked so hard for so he can give it to some lazy bum), and she is buying another house in town.
So process your scrap boards, get work (work hard no matter the job, if my job was cleaning outhouses I would work hard to make them shine)and buy metals.
