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[urbandiver]

Name : Doug
Sex : M
Age : 26
Location : SoCal
Hobbies : Rugby, Surfing, and anything that I can do to occupy my time
Interests : Electronics and Tinkering
How long have you been refining gold? : Brand new to all this.
What are you looking for in our community? : Ideas on how to start out in all this. I've been looking through the Tutorials, but honestly have no idea where to begin with all this.
How did you discovered our Forum? : YouTube
Other : I've been seeing posts about Hoke's book. Where can I find it at?

 

[Geo]

Other : I've been seeing posts about Hoke's book. Where can I find it at?

here you go.http://tinyurl.com/mfnyhs

 

[urbandiver]

Great, thanks!

 

[GoldenMonkey]

Name : Joe Zavalia
Sex : Male
Age : 29
Location : Massachusetts, USA
Profession : Retail
How long have you been refining gold? : This is really my first run.
What are you looking for in our community? : Basically information on how to safely refine gold (or make it as safe as possible). I know it's not necessarily going to be all that lucrative of a hobby, but at least it'll end up netting something.
How did you discovered our Forum? : An E-Scrapping website

 

[Tagsyboy]

Hello Everyone,
This Forum is Absolutely Awesome ! More information that can possibly be absorbed !!
I was Interested in Precious Metals Refining but this Forum Changed that Interest to Action and I am now looking forward to some Great Things from the Refining processes out here. I have access to Huge amounts of e-scrap - Fingers, Cpu's, Ram, Pins & Connectors from High End Medical electronics as well as too many Pc's.
I will post up pictures of materials with starting and ending quantities with the hope of any and all suggestions as to how to best process the stuff and any problems I encounter along the way.

Name : Chris
Sex : male
Age : 43
Location : Massachusettes
Profession : Professional Scrapper
Hobbies : Cars
Interrests : Money,
How long have you been refining gold? : Just Gettin Started
What are you looking for in our community? : Guidance and Education and to pass on the reults of all that good Advice
How did you discovered our Forum? : Gold-n-Scrap Youtube Videos
Other : Big Shout out to Gold-n-Scrap and Lazer Steve ( you can expect an order soon) and Harold ( who is constantly thorough and apparently available to help with questions) and Hoke (whose 359pg manual is a must have and referrred to constantly throughout the forum) and many others whose posts that I have read as well as the VIDEOS - Gotta Love Them !

 

[nickvc]

Welcome to the forum Chris.
Your doing the right things by reading and studying as that will give you the basics to get you recovering and refining successfully. Please note that I split the processes into two and that was deliberate, too many new members can't wait to get started and confuse the two.
Recovery is just that consolidating the values while removing troublesome elements.
Refining which is purifying your consolidated values.
Both are equally important to understand but without a proper recovery process refining is a nightmare.... especially with e scrap.
I wish you good luck and look forward to seeing you on the general forum.

 

[Tagsyboy]

Thanks Nick ! I have spent the past month doing the research and recovering the gold and other precious metals and you are absolutely correct it was a major task. I have now started the refining phase with my first AP Bath, actually I am doing two simultaneously, and evrything seems to be in order. I will be posting some pics and particulars of the starting materials
Thanks for the response

 

[Dave86]

Hi all,

Name : Dave
Sex : male
Age : 25
Location : United Kingdom
Profession : Lab Technician
How long have you been refining gold? I haven't refined any gold... yet

What are you looking for in our community? : I want to set up my own small refining business for gold, silver, platinum and copper (and in fact, anything else I can easily extract from jewellery and electrical waste).

How did you discovered our Forum? : Google

Other : I started buying scrap jewellery and selling it to refineries a few months ago, and got interested in buying plated items, e-scrap, industrial scrap (copper wires etc). I have a degree in Geology and work full time as a Lab Technician manufacturing silicone elastomers.

 

[pahje]

Name : Pahje Li
Sex : M
Age : 22
Location : Philippines
Profession : Business Man
Hobbies : Reading Reading Reading
Interrests : My Dog and Cash
How long have you been refining gold? : Never try yet but i am so much interested to learn
What are you looking for in our community? : Can some one teach me step by step procedure on how to recover some gold specially in computer parts etc.(coz i have a lot of its in our shop may bee morethan 200kilos of boards.)
How did you discovered our Forum? : searching searching and searching c:
Other : Thank you in advace for the kind hearted guys that are willing to share their info's. THANKYOU!!!

 

[Maniacop]

Hello All!!

Been a member for a little while, but am now just finding this introduction are and wanted to stop by and say Hi to everyone!
Lazersteve, his links and store are invaluable to me so far, that's why I made a donation and ordered several of his DVD's. Thanks Steve!!!


Name : Brett Stephens
Sex : Male
Age : 48
Location : Las Vegas, Nevada
Profession : Retired (Due to an on the job accident)
Hobbies : My Kids, Gold, Photography, Metal Detecting, Camping, Gold oh I already said that one :wink:
Interests : My Kids, Gold, Photography, Metal Detecting, Camping, Gold oh I already said that one :wink:
How long have you been refining gold? : Just starting out
What are you looking for in our community? : Friends, Information and a hand up not a hand out!
How did you discovered our Forum? : Either Google or Lazersteves site (short term memory loss)

Hello to you all and if there is ever anyone needs any help, with my limited knowledge (and my brother being a Goldsmith for the last 20 years) I will be eager to help! Just finished Hokes book. She was realy ahead of her time!

Sorry for rambling, and always... Be safe!

Brett

 

[Bluestreak]

Hello,

Name : Jonathan Dillard
Sex : Male
Age : 37
Location : Englewood, FL and Charlotte, NC
Profession : Airline Pilot
Hobbies : airplanes, bicycling, archery, vintage analogue synths
Interrests : scrapping, farming, real estate
How long have you been refining gold? : I just started collecting components.
What are you looking for in our community? : knowledge
How did you discovered our Forum? : youtube

 

[phcdsqu]

Name : Chad
Sex : Male
Age : 37
Location : Minneapolis, MN
Profession : Electrical Engineer, Auto Mechanic and Programmer
Hobbies : Computers, Music, Cars, Ancient languages, Refining
Interests : Physics, History
How long have you been refining gold? : Dabbled in it for over 10 years now.
What are you looking for in our community? : Gain and share knowledge
How did you discovered our Forum? : Web Search

 

[khorn]

Name : Kevin
Sex : Male
Age : 39
Location : Columbia, MO
Profession : Info Tech Programmer
Hobbies : Cribbage w/ the wife, BMWs, beer/wine making
Interests : Just about everything that's interesting
How long have you been refining gold? : I'm still at day 0.
What are you looking for in our community? : information
How did you discovered our Forum? : Lasersteve's youtube and website

 

[safewaybestway]

Name: Russ
Sex: male
Age: 40
Location: South Carolina
Profession: disabled master plumber, hobby jeweler for 25yrs. last 4 summers volunteer overseas English/mission teacher in refugee and youth camps in Hungary and Russia.
Hobbies: very limited recreational gold panning/sluicing, metal detecting, hunting and fishing. wood working.
Interests: helping those in need in any way that i am physically able to, i am not paid for my work overseas and i have to raise my own money to pay for travel, food and teaching supplies. so i raise money through scrap metals (with labor help from others) and past 2 summers through e-mining. i have worked with karat gold and silver with my former hobby jewelry business, refining and casting ingots from scrap.
How long have you been refining: melting and casting scrap for 6yrs. learning e-mining for past 2 yrs and still learning.
What are you looking for in this community: More efficient ways to recover and refine PM's from e-waste with the best environmentally friendly manner. also if possible, easier way to process mother boards, processors and cell phones in a manner that for me with disabilities causing physically limited abilities to use the most efficient methods regardless of the time it takes, im in no hurry.
How did you discover this forum: searching and studying refining methods and saw an ad for this forum.

 

[louis488]

Name : Louis
Sex :M
Age :41
Location :The Big Easy
Profession :Bartender
Hobbies :Shooting
Interrests : Classic Rock
How long have you been refining gold? : not long, Tried once and messed up
What are you looking for in our community? :Information advice ect
How did you discovered our Forum? : Google
Other :Well I got the gold fever about 2 years ago bought some " High grade board that was loaded with gold" Well you live you learn.

 

[nickvc]

I think it's fair to say we all mess up, the beauty of the forum is that the information to retrieve your values is contained within it, you have to do your part and study and read, start with Hoke and the forum handbooks which are Fred as a download off many members signature lines, visit Lazersteves site and watch his videos, well worth buying as well and use the search function, top right of the screen or use the one on Steves site to further your studies, if you really get stuck or just can't understand something post a question, but be aware the regular contributors will know by how the question is formed whether your reading and studying and if not don't expect too much help.
Welcome to the forum.

 

[cvillan]

Name : Jeremy
Sex : M
Age : 29 (for a few more days at least!)
Location : Central Virginia
Profession : Computer Repair
Hobbies : Tinkering with new gizmos and gadgets, gaming, my veggie garden, making bacon.
Interrests : Film making, chemistry, sociology, loud music, terrible movies
How long have you been refining gold? : I'm working on my first batch of tochpads now.
What are you looking for in our community? : Basically what I've already seen here. A bunch of people with a shared interest getting together to help each other.
How did you discovered our Forum? : Short answer, google. Long answer. I got my first computer in 1994. A Unysis 486DX-33 with 16MB of RAM and a 350GB SCSI Hard drive. I opened it up and saw gold! and got yelled at by my parents. Since then I have wondered how much gold there was in computers and how I could get it. I learned a few basics years ago after looking online, but now that i have a supply of parts I started looking again and came across this forum.
Other : I really really like bacon. I can not state this enough.

 

[Harold_V]

Other : I really really like bacon. I can not state this enough.

Chuckle!!

We'll, I'm more of a sausage kind of guy, but I certainly understand.

Welcome to the forum.

Harold

 

[mhobson]

Name: Mike
Sex:M
Age:49
Location: Southern Indiana
Profession: Electrician
Hobbies: woodworking,wine making, kayaking/fishing
Interest: right now , precious metal refining . Could be a new hobby.
What I'm looking for in this forum? Lots and lots of information.
I would like to say hello to all of the members. I have never joined a forum before, so I am learning all kinds of new things. I really enjoy reading this forum, it has info that I haven't been able to find anywhere else. You all are really a bunch of intelligent people , that are willing to share your wisdom. I can't think of a better forum to be associated with . Thank you !
I have been doing some experimentations. I have been able to make my own Nitric acid ( The cold method), copperas, testing solution A (stanious cloride ) . Copper cement , and copper nitrate from the waste solutions. I'm not looking to make a bunch of money with this, just a hobby. I'm really more interested in the chemistry of it all. No ,I do not have a chemistry background. Sure wish I did now. Again, Thank you all very much for sharing your knowledge. Mhobson..