Gold in old Debit/Credit card terminal

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tomysole

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I was curious about what kind of precious metals may be inside an old credit/debit card machine. Not bad considering I have a bunch of these old things laying around. Here's what I ripped out of it~
 

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Those PCBs shown wont make you rich. The goldplating on the LED displays is very thin the one on the keyboard PCB may be a bit higher but still. But I CAN tell you that a company like Fujisu-Siemens did cash in 20.000.000€ in 2008 just from recycling the gold of their old Siemens-Nixdorf ATMs!
So there must be a lot of gold in those terminals, just need to look more closely...
 
Those actually look like some boards I have, and some of them had Gold traces on them, may want to take a razor to parts of the board wiring.
 

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