e Bay "Gold Drops"

[Shark]

anyway right before I joined there was a post about read this book first before asking questions, I can't find it, can someone help me link up on that book.
Thanks

There are two versions of C.M. Hoke's book A printable version and a screen readable version. They can be found at the bottom of Frugelrefiner's signature or they can be found at the following links.

Printer friendly version

Printer Friendly Copy of Hoke's Book

Screen readable version

Screen Readable Copy of Hoke's Book

The book doesn't deal with eWaste directly, but on refining gold with sections on a few other precious metals. Well worth the read and nice to have on hand as a reference at times.

 

[silversaddle1]

They do not contain any gold whatsoever quite a few members here have bought and tested - also on YouTube. Not even 0.01 of gold in them bars.

E scrap isn’t really worth processing unless you have a e waste company or you directly refine for one.

You need 10000 pre 2015 laptops to obtain 10 ounces; pro rata adaption can be used to calculate. However some items contain more than others so that’s an average.

Hate to burst your bubble but if you’re grabbing ten laptops here, ten laptops there, a phone here and a phone there, you’re heading for a huge disappointment. I don’t want to say it’s not worth it but that’s what almost everyone will say, unless you have access to high amounts of this sort of material.

Say an average laptop weighs 4-5 pounds @ .90 cents a pound for laptops...... 40,000 pounds x .90 cents.....= $36,000.00. Why would you even bother trying to refine? Somthing ain't right with that number.

 

[Jmk88]

Well... if that’s what you’re paying then no.

It’s only worth considering e waste as a scrap model if you are taking huge huge amounts. It’s a bit like mining I’m told... it only becomes viable if the quantity of waste is substantial.

I think the poor chap posting above has watched a YouTube video and misjudged. YouTube can be a good source but generally not the actual refining videos... more chemistry processes and techniques which normally have no mention to gold or are not directly linked to it.

I have multiple contacts in the industry and even then scrap is still extremely hard to come by. I haven’t processed e waste before and probably wouldn’t bother as my house is not big enough to store it all!

 

[patnor1011]

They do not contain any gold whatsoever quite a few members here have bought and tested - also on YouTube. Not even 0.01 of gold in them bars.

E scrap isn’t really worth processing unless you have a e waste company or you directly refine for one.

You need 10000 pre 2015 laptops to obtain 10 ounces; pro rata adaption can be used to calculate. However some items contain more than others so that’s an average.

Hate to burst your bubble but if you’re grabbing ten laptops here, ten laptops there, a phone here and a phone there, you’re heading for a huge disappointment. I don’t want to say it’s not worth it but that’s what almost everyone will say, unless you have access to high amounts of this sort of material.

That number could be close.
I personally harvested goldplated pins from about 2000 laptops. It took a lot of time and result was dissappointing in a sense that if you compare result to time spent - let us just not go there lol.
To be precise there was 23 grams of gold in 14 kilograms of fully plated pins and 3 grams of gold in partially plated pins - I do not remember exatly but it was 6 or 9 kilograms of them. So that make about 26 grams of gold from 2000 laptop pins.
Not counting other stuff from laptops which I sold or processed separately. By other stuff I mean: fingers from ram sticks and cards, battery terminals from batteries and battery motherboard connectors, shielding from pcmcia connectors, cpu's, solder and all of the IC chips...