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[Erceg]

You can try fertilizer factory or thermal power plants dump sites. It depends on what kind of ore and coal they use. Firs ones waste is phosphogypsum and second one is coal dust and slag (go figure ) which should be low to moderate radioactive so be careful.

 

[Justincase]

I ended up getting a sample of Americium Am-241 and a quantity of watch hands that where labeled "For Steam Punk".
The Americium is meant to be 0.9 micro Curies which tickled the Geiger counter a little,the real surprise was the watch hands.
They where giving of 4-5 mR/h which was five to six time's the radiant amount of the Americium.They will be staying in the bag they came in and I did let the vendor know not to sell any radium contains items as art supply's again.
But it is a nice piece of kit and came with a load of useful odds and end's.It may be a bit heavy to take on a walk up Dartmoor but I can now screen for an other variable in my minerals.

 

[philddreamer]

:roll: :roll: :roll: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-8-Cyrix-Ceramic-Computer-CPU-for-scrap-gold-recovery/321559036376?_trksid=p272.c100223.m3203&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140502130126%26meid%3Db1a738a1a53341a7814fd881a805d3a7%26pid%3D100223%26prg%3D20140502130126%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D30%26sd%3D251689543205 :roll: :roll: :roll:

 

[jason_recliner]

:roll: :roll: :roll: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-8-Cyrix-Ceramic-Computer-CPU-for-scrap-gold-recovery/321559036376?_trksid=p272.c100223.m3203&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140502130126%26meid%3Db1a738a1a53341a7814fd881a805d3a7%26pid%3D100223%26prg%3D20140502130126%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D30%26sd%3D251689543205 :roll: :roll: :roll:

I nearly fell off my fitball, laughing.

 

[Justincase]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Furnace-Kiln-Crucible-Mould-Tongs-Melt-Tong-17-/290530513730?

Seem's a bit O.T.T. on the price I would say.

 

[Justincase]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/scrap-9ct-gold-ring-silver-gold-cap-ceramic-cpu-IC-chip-gold-finger-plated-pins-/271670864425?
Seemed a bit much to clean up a mess some one else made :roll:

 

[necromancer]

can't believe people are still buying these .......

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/41g-Solid-Scrap-Gold-CPU-Pins-Gold-Silver-Recovery-Bar-Round-Over-1-0-oz-B31-/311184862825?

might be time to start listing all those hard drive platters :mrgreen:

 

[jason_recliner]

can't believe people are still buying these .......

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/41g-Solid-Scrap-Gold-CPU-Pins-Gold-Silver-Recovery-Bar-Round-Over-1-0-oz-B31-/311184862825?

might be time to start listing all those hard drive platters :mrgreen:

Just wow.

This is not a pure .999 Gold Bar.

You don't say...

 

[man114]

41g of melted pins for $100?

My friend and I messed around with some of these melted bars again a few weeks back. Depending on the seller they top out at 5% gold usually this will be a domestic seller who threw something gold filled into the melt, most seem to be more like .5%, some were 1% or 2% if you were lucky
. If you're ambitious and hard working you can scan ebay all day and try to assemble about a Kg of this crap. If you get about a Kg for $100 you might get a decent result and that's a maybe. Results are terribly inconsistent, if you're lucky they melted something with silver. To easier refine the things you have to grind them down fine and then use Aqua Regia to attempt to recover what gold might be there. Melting them into ingots makes them look nice and makes them a nightmare to work with. I'd rather take a bag of clipped pins. They're fine if you get them for next to nothing, just want to play around or use them to simulate gold bars for a movie prop but otherwise they're worthless. To make any sort of profit on these you'd have to sit all day on ebay attempting to snipe no reserve listings until you had amassed a large quantity and hope the yield was decent.

For all the work involved the buyers would be better searching for some old estate jewelry. What do I know. I feel sorry for anything trying to refine these, it's a pain in the butt. If you don't believe me buy one and try refining it.

Then again it's most likely a better deal than buying 8 CPUs for $1000...

 

[patnor1011]

41g of melted pins for $100?

My friend and I messed around with some of these melted bars again a few weeks back. Depending on the seller they top out at 5% gold usually this will be a domestic seller who threw something gold filled into the melt, most seem to be more like .5%, some were 1% or 2% if you were lucky
. If you're ambitious and hard working you can scan ebay all day and try to assemble about a Kg of this crap. If you get about a Kg for $100 you might get a decent result and that's a maybe. Results are terribly inconsistent, if you're lucky they melted something with silver. To easier refine the things you have to grind them down fine and then use Aqua Regia to attempt to recover what gold might be there. Melting them into ingots makes them look nice and makes them a nightmare to work with. I'd rather take a bag of clipped pins. They're fine if you get them for next to nothing, just want to play around or use them to simulate gold bars for a movie prop but otherwise they're worthless. To make any sort of profit on these you'd have to sit all day on ebay attempting to snipe no reserve listings until you had amassed a large quantity and hope the yield was decent.

For all the work involved the buyers would be better searching for some old estate jewelry. What do I know. I feel sorry for anything trying to refine these, it's a pain in the butt. If you don't believe me buy one and try refining it.

Then again it's most likely a better deal than buying 8 CPUs for $1000...

If you grind them and then use AR you do it all wrong.
These bars are waste of time and resources. If you account for acids and time spent you must be in red numbers.
There is no profit in these. No matter how hard you will try, even if you will get them free.

 

[g_axelsson]

Put them in the stock pot, the only way to get the gold out for free. They will slowly be dissolved while the gold is left in the sludge.

Won't work if you have too many of them compared to your other refining volumes though.

Göran

 

[man114]

41g of melted pins for $100?

My friend and I messed around with some of these melted bars again a few weeks back. Depending on the seller they top out at 5% gold usually this will be a domestic seller who threw something gold filled into the melt, most seem to be more like .5%, some were 1% or 2% if you were lucky
. If you're ambitious and hard working you can scan ebay all day and try to assemble about a Kg of this crap. If you get about a Kg for $100 you might get a decent result and that's a maybe. Results are terribly inconsistent, if you're lucky they melted something with silver. To easier refine the things you have to grind them down fine and then use Aqua Regia to attempt to recover what gold might be there. Melting them into ingots makes them look nice and makes them a nightmare to work with. I'd rather take a bag of clipped pins. They're fine if you get them for next to nothing, just want to play around or use them to simulate gold bars for a movie prop but otherwise they're worthless. To make any sort of profit on these you'd have to sit all day on ebay attempting to snipe no reserve listings until you had amassed a large quantity and hope the yield was decent.

For all the work involved the buyers would be better searching for some old estate jewelry. What do I know. I feel sorry for anything trying to refine these, it's a pain in the butt. If you don't believe me buy one and try refining it.

Then again it's most likely a better deal than buying 8 CPUs for $1000...

If you grind them and then use AR you do it all wrong.
These bars are waste of time and resources. If you account for acids and time spent you must be in red numbers.
There is no profit in these. No matter how hard you will try, even if you will get them free.

Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to refine these to make money. My friend and I got some of these bars and blobs for free some time ago from one of his refining buddies that didn't feel like messing with them. We've played around with them out of boredom a couple of times using various methods. I should mention some of the ones we have had gold filled stuff in the mix, not just pins, so there was more to recover, at least enough to warrant attempting it, plus we've got a decent sized bagful and I'm really not dishonest enough to put them on eBay.

I know he melted some down one weekend but I'm not sure what he did with them that time. I'll ask and see if he remembers. The grind and AR was an experiment too, not sure it's the proper way because there really is no proper way to make it economically feasible to do these unless you know for some reason that the yield will be higher.

We've only messed around with the smallish ones so far, the big ones would waste too much. I'm not even precisely sure what to do with them. I'm using a nice 185 gram blob as a paperweight.

They aren't even good for making jewelry as they're too hard. Maybe I'll melt them into shapes or something.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

there really is no proper way to make it economically feasible to do these unless you know for some reason that the yield will be higher.

Look back at the post right above yours"

Put them in the stock pot, the only way to get the gold out for free. They will slowly be dissolved while the gold is left in the sludge.

Won't work if you have too many of them compared to your other refining volumes though.

Göran

Dave

 

[macfixer01]

This guy is a sleeze ball on multiple levels. I have little doubt he knows full well those chips don't have anywhere near 1.1 grams of gold.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181616690218

 

[necromancer]

This guy is a sleeze ball on multiple levels. I have little doubt he knows full well those chips don't have anywhere near 1.1 grams of gold.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181616690218

but they will sell.

how about this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Pentium-Pro-CPU-High-Yield-Gold-Recovery-Gold-Scrap-LOT-OF-150/141510868153?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131003132420%26meid%3Dd73cdd10f88a4adfaf022689ccddfe3c%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D20131003132420%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D181616690218&rt=nc

$4500 bucks for maybe $2000 worth of gold

 

[macfixer01]

Sorry, just one more... I hesitate to call this a button, more like a typical Ebay blob and he's calling it a bar. He says it's 99%, then says between 95% and 99%, then says he only guarantees 22k (which is 91.6%). So which is it? And then he expects to keep 10% of your money if you return it because you find out it's crap. Looks pretty dirty too, hard to judge what it really might be? I wouldn't pay anywhere near what he's asking though. I hope this guy isn't a member here?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261704813071

 

[necromancer]

i am laughing out loud over that one, my wife wanted to know what i was laughing about, she read it & just can't believe some people

 

[macfixer01]

This guy is a sleeze ball on multiple levels. I have little doubt he knows full well those chips don't have anywhere near 1.1 grams of gold.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181616690218

but they will sell.

how about this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Pentium-Pro-CPU-High-Yield-Gold-Recovery-Gold-Scrap-LOT-OF-150/141510868153?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131003132420%26meid%3Dd73cdd10f88a4adfaf022689ccddfe3c%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D20131003132420%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D181616690218&rt=nc

$4500 bucks for maybe $2000 worth of gold

I think the tide has turned on the really excessive prices for Pentium Pros. I frequently see them end up in the $20 each range now, and I was watching an auction for 50 PPro chips a few days ago that ended up selling for $909 or around $18 each. There will always be exceptions that make no sense though like the auction you referred to here for $30 each.

 

[necromancer]

well if this person if planning to flip them when gold is $1800 a ounce again, they will do good !!

 

[patnor1011]

It is hard to determine what is fair price for pentium pro's as there is fluctuation of gold price and it really is basic offer and demand thing. If seller value them more than you think then it is hard to call him thief or something like that. It is simply that you do not want to pay what he ask and that is it. It is not different that buying other stuff, soda is more expensive than water somewhere and many more examples. Buying bottled water is another prime example of madness.
I would only call them thief or sleazebag if they stated that there is 1g of gold in each one or some other outrageous claims but if they just sell them for higher price well that is what they feel they are worth. Educated buyer will base his decision on experience and well maybe buyer want to hold them and wait for price to go up...
The only people I may call thief on ebay are those selling so called drops, but hey bottled water comes to my mind again. I see most of these auctions we post here as a fun, entertainment and if somebody fall for some of them it is just their own decision and mistake. Hope they will learn from that mistake.