Telecom Board Yield?

[TheDragonWins]

These boards are just gaining dust on the side of the house. My interest in refining anything myself pretty much ends at the potential for death and injury. That being said, if i do persue this, safety will be of utmost importance. My question is, what kind of yield of PGM group metals should i expect from something like these boards.

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[Anonymous]

Those are extremely high yielding boards.

In addition to gold, telecoms enterprise boards often have a very large yield of Palladium in addition to the gold. It's basically to do with the manufacturing process involved in that particular application.

Jon

 

[ettran]

These boards are just gaining dust on the side of the house. My interest in refining anything myself pretty much ends at the potential for death and injury. That being said, if i do persue this, safety will be of utmost importance. My question is, what kind of yield of PGM group metals should i expect from something like these boards.

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hi , are they for sale ? ed

 

[Anonymous]

Ed's sniffing around so that proves my point 8) 8)

*grins at Ed*

Jon

 

[TheDragonWins]

Yeah ill probably sell them. I can send 50lb boxes through ups 2nd day air anywhere in the us for about 10 bucks so shipping wouldnt be a problem. PM me.

Honestly, these boards were part of a lot that i purchased for IFR FM/AM 1500 Communication Service Monitor and some other RF amps/power supplies from glenayre.

 

[TheDragonWins]

Ed's sniffing around so that proves my point 8) 8)

*grins at Ed*

Jon

These boards are just 1 box. I have 2 more boxes to weigh and figure out what im doing with.

I know im not going to get a pound of gold but "Very high yielding" on the Jon "scale-of-Yields" means about 100PPM or 5000PPM?

 

[TheDragonWins]

the one board i wanted to ask about is not in the bunch. Based on the price i paid for the whole lot, i am +1300 Dollars so far on this lot, so in my eyes that is 1300 dollars towards stuff to bring me into this world correctly.

 

[g_axelsson]

The largest part of PGM is probably in the small yellow and blue-green capacitors used as decoupling capacitors close to almost every IC.

Göran

 

[TheDragonWins]

The largest part of PGM is probably in the small yellow and blue-green capacitors used as decoupling capacitors close to almost every IC.

Göran

thank you sir.

 

[kurtak]

Very nice boards 8) :!:

I just did a bunch of boards just like those - not sure how many pounds it was as they were boards that came in here & there over time but this is what I got out of them plus another 7 grams

:arrow: http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=23907&p=252736#p252725

Kurt

 

[scrappappy]

Why not have it toll refined?

 

[Anonymous]

Jon


These boards are just 1 box. I have 2 more boxes to weigh and figure out what im doing with.

I know im not going to get a pound of gold but "Very high yielding" on the Jon "scale-of-Yields" means about 100PPM or 5000PPM?

High yield for me is in excess of 300PPM. You have various PMs here though so I'd look at is as a cash value as opposed to a straight ppm deal. On the first set of pictures I'd suggest north of 300PPM. By the way that backplane board in your later pics is seriously high. As Goran correctly pointed out some of the smaller components on these boards contain large amounts of pgms.

 

[ettran]

Ed's sniffing around so that proves my point 8) 8)

*grins at Ed*

Jon

just asking a question , not sneaking for a good deal , ed.

 

[Anonymous]

Why not though? There's nothing wrong with a good deal that works for both parties.

 

[ettran]

Why not though? There's nothing wrong with a good deal that works for both parties.

that's true .I have had x-ray boards like that looks the same . 10 inch by 15 inch , with fingers on both ends , ed.

 

[TheDragonWins]

Jon


These boards are just 1 box. I have 2 more boxes to weigh and figure out what im doing with.

I know im not going to get a pound of gold but "Very high yielding" on the Jon "scale-of-Yields" means about 100PPM or 5000PPM?

High yield for me is in excess of 300PPM. You have various PMs here though so I'd look at is as a cash value as opposed to a straight ppm deal. On the first set of pictures I'd suggest north of 300PPM. By the way that backplane board in your later pics is seriously high. As Goran correctly pointed out some of the smaller components on these boards contain large amounts of pgms.

Thank you for the awesome reply.

 

[TheDragonWins]

WHat would be a good price to sell em at. Honestly I would like metal.


there are 2 or 3 of those big backplanes. .

This took way longer then i expected. but here is the 2nd box.

 

[kurtak]

Opps - I had to delete a post because I meant to send it as a PM & it had my phone number in it which I don't want just anyone to have

I mention this because I am not sure if the mods can tell if a post has been deleted & I don't want any of the mods thinking I was breaking forum rules

TheDragonWins - you have a PM

Kurt

 

[Anonymous]

I trust Kurt's ethics.

He would rather tear off his arm than lower himself to cheat someone. I believe you'll get the true returns if you send it to him to toll refine.

Jon

 

[modtheworld44]

I trust Kurt's ethics.

He would rather tear off his arm than lower himself to cheat someone. I believe you'll get the true returns if you send it to him to toll refine.

Jon

spaceships

You are right about Kurtak, he is very honest in his business dealings.I have done some business with him on some ic's,and the transaction on both sides went smoothly. :mrgreen:



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