Gold Plated Electrical Connectors

[clownfish]

UPDATED AGAIN:

Don't think I'm going to sucessfulyl process it and now have the stuff up for sale - willing to travel to surrounding countries, Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland, etc. to sell, Please let me know if anyone has any Ideas. I also added another photo to give an idea of how much I have.

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I've got a decent amount of gold plated electrical connectors and I'm torn between processing them myself to get the pure gold - which I've never done, but am sure i can study and figure out - or just selling them as is to a recycler.

Located in Budapest Hungary, acquired these from a property purchase.

My question is this:

Is it worth learning and doing the process myself, I've been looking at the Iodine process, and about how long are we taking before i have negotiable gold?

If the better bet is to sell to recycler, does anyone know a place in SE Europe that buys this stuff?

Photo attached.

Thanks, clownfish

Updated with more photos.

Can anyone direct me to a good guide to the sulfuric cell technique.

Anyone got any idea of how much I'm looking at her?

 

[MarcoP]

Hello clownfish and welcome,

with the quantity you have it could be probably worth learning and processing it your self, I would go with a sulfuric cell instead of the iodine simply because all the hours I already put in studying the cell.

If you are interested in selling, I don't know any company who would buy it but I could be interested my self.

Are those connectors new or used? Could you upload (editing your first post) a better, less fuzzy, picture please.

Marco

 

[nickvc]

Marco has it right, you seem to have reasonable quantities but not enough for the big boys to be interested so the sulphuric cell would at least be fairly quick and cheap to make and use.
You won't get pure,fine,gold from it but you can easily get to that from the residues from the cell using methods clearly outlined here on the forum or failing that wash the residues well and melt into a bar which can be assayed.