HOW MANY COMPUTERS DOES IT TAKE TO EXTRACT AND REFINE ONE OUNCE OF GOLD???

[weyghrwyjdtjhjerhjwr]

heres an intresting thought the human body contains gold about one mg for a person about 170 so it would only take one thousand people to get one gram or 28 thousand people to make one ounce

[gigie555]

To get $55 of gold, you would need gold plated items totaling 0.8 m2 total

surface area. That is a lot of gold plated parts. Here's the math.

Gold plating is usually about 20 micro inches thick (20 millionths of an inch or 1/19762 cm), To yield a gram of gold worth $55. 1 Gram of gold is .3727 cm3 ( a cube .3727 cm on each side) split down to 1/19762 cm thick sections would yield a surface area of .3727cm2 x 19762 or 7365 cm2 or almost 1 meter squared.

How can this be economical?

[Michael775100]

one pound of Pentium 4 cpu pins but older seramic prosesors like pentium 2 and under have a lot more gold

[twistedfx69420]

well there are 3-6 grams of gold in each computer and there are almost 29 grams in a oz so its gonna take atleast 10-13 computers

[gigie555]

@twistedfx69420 3-6 grams??!! Where did you get that from? Read my other post.

[tibrucee6969]

@twistedfx69420 27.6 grams to be exact there is 28 grams in an ounce.

[uploaded113redone]

@twistedfx69420 you lie right through your teeth

[MrBookiekiller]

there is lots of gold plated pieces in each PC thats only 5% gold the best gold is n the pentium processorse thats 12 k gold real ! small pins and contact pieces ! YOU need about 50 PCs total all metals to get a nice pay day ! YOU have the steel at laest 20 lbs thats $2.40 Coper at laest 2 lbs in each one not just the wires the trnistors also thats $7 ! Aluminum at laest 3 lbs Thats $1.60 gold silver you need to get 1 ounce each then take to refiner to get $100's NOT jewlers or others

[fritzkat]

i worked for a shop building race cars and one of our clients had started an electronics recycling buisnes and he was rolling in money way before the gold boom and now im sure he is laughing all the way to the bank

[GG4GTV]

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[Mlwtca]

It takes about 1 1/2 tons of gold bearing electronic scrap such as memory sticks, motherboards, sound cars etc. If you don't know what you are doing you could have a ounce of gold in a extracted powder form (which you probably will if you use acids to dissolve it) and put a torch to it and watch it all go up in smoke. The only efficient way is to use mercury,get the gold into a ball,and melt the gold down. Very toxic but it keeps everything from going up in smoke.

[cmd19872002]

The amount of computers would be a fairly large range. In 1 ton (2000 pounds) of computer boards there is typically 5-11 troy oz of gold.

[GypsyTinker2012]

In my experience reclaiming gold from computers it would take about 300 computers (the older the better) to get an ounce of gold. Any estimate much higher than that and you are missing some gold... and yes, this is PURE gold. The very new computers don't have much at all in them though...

[LeadsandIncomes]

Hello

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[MrXstacey]

@LeadsandIncomes Thanks for the link, lots of information to sift through.

[memoryfull21]

first, mute the button then read the comments. all comments are informative than the video

[klj2503]

OK, heres a fact there is estimated between 20 and 40 times as much gold per unit of weight compared to quallity virgin rock/gold ore - on top of that there is still a lot of other metals to be extracted, however producing gold from ore is production vise a lot easyer than from electronic scrap. so to answer the question - It depend on the quallity of the computers you intend to recycle. In ye oldie days compuders had a lot more gold than they do now - so age of your scrap is also a factor.

[pixelwizard9001]

yes true It takes a shit load to make even a gram but if you go to yard sales and get some 10,14,20,24k gold you can refine that as well and you mite come across something that is gold plated and you can brake that down as well. the point i'm making is that you can do this for a living but you can get a lot of cash braking down other things + computer parts and scraping the case and heat sinks and stuff so that's my take on things

[atomrocketcar]

i came up with estimate of 2000 lb of mother boards to 1 oz, not pure, still need to refine, so,...,,,

problly better to find a chicken that can lay golden eggs, i had one long time ago, but it got killed by a cat........

[VDubGLI]

@atomrocketcar those evil motherf'ers. kitty killing rampage!

[terry9748]

@atomrocketcar this is not true at all where did you find your info? you can ger a gran of 24k gold from 1 computer and more silver

[Dbjjr26]

@googlFascists I dont know how true your statement is but the comedic value almost made me piss myself haha your halarious :D Two thumbs up! aww come now I dont care who you are, Thats Funny!

[Quaaludedude714]

I,m Pissed 0ff at the thought of Ruining Perfectly good Computer Parts , witch are worth more as a Computer Part than all the crap one has to go through to get such a small amount of Gold , May the Computer Gods Kick your Ass ! :) QC

[wolfizwatchin]

computers... why stop there... there are so many things with gold plating in them/on them...

I have smelted various scraps and turned 3.8 ounces of 99.95%... after being sent for verification to put into my IRA it was refined down to 3.1 troy ounces, (dvd players, scrapped glasses (high dollar), pcu's, ram, boards, keyboards, cell phones (older ones the better), utensils; dont stop at computers, you'd be nulled at dumb comments. Chem your own acids and save exspense... it's fukn easy!!!

[BenBizaouiESR]

i have been in the business of recycling for over 22 years i can tell you that even if gold goes up to $5,000 an once it would not be worth the time effort and ball busting work to extract it unless you are operating a 1,000,000 machine that can handle 1,000 KG at a time and is all completely automated

[cubbycab]

an ounce of weed is 28.3 grams. A TROY ounce ( used for metals) is 31.1 grams. so eat crow carefreeforever! You just spoke out of turn! XD

[zpoppe]

Too many varibles to list Pre 1994 computers 150 units = 1 oz, gold 1995 and later computers 375 units =1 oz. gold All these figures are based on a averages, and each situation is going to give you a different result. So in real world situation this is not the case.

[AsylumET]

@panzerkampfwagen123 Absolutely. I get a large amount from businesses upgrading to new systems. Another thing is the other metals in there. Steel, tin, aluminum, copper, palladium, rhodium... If someone is collecting computers just for gold they are wasting their time, money and efforts but if you are seriously processing for all it's worth then you should be able to make a profit. You may well find it to be more profitable to sell the scrap CPU's and other unprocessed parts on ebay though.

[jrpincctxxx]

@panzerkampfwagen123 yeah unless you are doing the hydro acid to dissolve the metals 3000 dollars for a nice side bath and solution and getting tons of materals like most do at paying 10 to 15 cents per lbs you lose but if you do have you can make good money but asnic siolution in us is hard to get.

[jrpincctxxx]

@panzerkampfwagen123

it takes one ton of computer or plated electronic boards to get onde ounce of gold.

Now if mining it it takes roughly about 100 metric tons of earth to get one ounce of gold.

[AsylumET]

@panzerkampfwagen123 You must be kidding. Just this week alone I have had more than 30 computers brought in at no cost to me. They are stripped down, sorted into metal types and processed. Some people even pay for the old computers and manage to profit.

[BillKville]

The value in scrap computers is not just the gold content, but rather all of the other metals added in. Aluminum, cadmium, gold, silver, platinum, lithium, etc.. My company is a scrap electronics recycling company, and it is quite profitable. Don't focus on just the gold (even though there's a lot of it in there). Hope this helps.

[ScrapGoldBusiness]

@BillKville

great point...

[mattamal1]

@ScrapGoldBusiness yes I think your right one I am isolating all my gold boards an I am going to get a lot like a 10 5 gallon buckets worth when I'm 60 I might try to refine it if it high enough . You get steel, copper wire, and can sell other parts too. So its worth it. When you add up you all your scrap.

[zeek19961]

@BillKville a lot of computers

[senseblogger]

SO true it's micro thin plated and a bitch to remove by hand using fine scraping blades !

I have been successful in removing most of gold from junk PC's i find on streets but way easier on designer sunglss frames that use 14 - 18 K gold plate ! I found 4 pairs of like Ray bans , Giorgio Armani ,Yves Saint Laurent etc. and gold plated jewlery one pice can have as much gold as a whole mother board !

[thebrassmonkey100]

fukin troll....

[sk8erluke1]

The chips in computers are gold plated so its extremely hard to extract pure gold by your self so it would probably be easier to just pan for gold

[LawrenceElectronics]

I can help anyone do this i have an exclusive DVD. Im looking for investors who want to make money in recycling, i just start up cash for my idea.

also the dvd i have invloves chemicals and is really a technical process this video is so accurate and shows you every thing STEP BY STEP. STOP WASTING YOUR TIME GUESSING HOW GOLD IS RECOVERED. HAVE THE PEOPLE DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT or DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW SO THEY JUST GO ALONG WITH ALL THE BS. dvd is 19.99 w/ free shipping 

[JustMeOrMaybeNot]

I'd rather pan for gold than try to reclaim it this way. More power to anybody that can reclaim any significant amount at a profit.

[BillKville]

Watch my video's gang, I'll show you as I learn.

[donjimbeam]

Is there a video that looks clearly the steps where exract the gold ? ? ?

[marketingtube]

on average, it takes 1 pound of motherboard chips to extract 1/2 - 1 gram of gold (10k) (this depends on either pentium I,II, or III), on top of that, there is also gold in the motherboards, fingerings, and pins. I would estimate on average, roughly 20 computers to make 1 gram, but that would be for todays computers.

[josephlathus]

@marketingtube so ruffly 480 computers to approx get 1 0z. of gold then

[GooglFascists]

@marketingtube 10k, (carat) gold is only 41% actual gold, so to get just 1 gram,

(1/33 of an ounce), of 24 carat pure 99.9% gold would take approx. 50 computers

per gram, or $48. Then you have to figure cost of chemicals to extract it.

Unless gold goes to $5,000 per oz to me this is a hell of a GOOCHER.

You'd make more profit shoveling sh*t behind an elephant parade.

[TheLpgenius]

@GooglFascists It takes 150 modern computers and 120 older computers to make one ounce of gold. if you were a gold refiner, you would know that.

[AsylumET]

@TheLpgenius If you were a gold refiner you would know that is not true. There is no real answer as it depends on the computers in question. Some manufacturers use little to no gold and some load it right up. It just depends. For instance some MB's have stainless fingers instead of plated fingers. You are on track with the older computers taking less than modern to achieve an oz. This is because gold was cheap and such a great conductor. There are now more comparable conductors to use.

[Robbob9933]

@AsylumET Correct. This is a wide question. An old IBM mainframe may contain a pound.

[AsylumET]

@GooglFascists I've yet to find a computer with gold purity any less than 24k. The cost of chemicals is rather cheap and there is no real answer to the videos question. It depends on the computers. Some manufacturers use more gold than others. There are many other metals as well. To just process for gold alone would be wasteful.

[jrpincctxxx]

@GooglFascists 

[LeadsandIncomes]

@GooglFascists

Close to true, I started recovering gold from computers and returned a respectable 11 grams of 24k. But remove the chemical costs, equipment costs, Melting and travel gas costs, the actual return on (even free) the large amount of computers needed proved this to be a fun hobby not a money making venture. But not all is lost. From your 50 computers I can sell all the green boards ( MB, Sound, and slot boards) for $4.80 a pound (about 1.5 pounds per computer), to be continued

[LeadsandIncomes]

@GooglFascists

Close to true, I started recovering gold from computers and returned a respectable 11 grams of 24k. But remove the chemical costs, equipment costs, Melting and travel gas costs, the actual return on (even free) the large amount of computers needed proved this to be a fun hobby not a money making venture. But not all is lost. From your 50 computers I can sell all the green boards ( MB, Sound, and slot boards) for $4.80 a pound (about 1.5 pounds per computer), to be continued

[LeadsandIncomes]

@LeadsandIncomes and the memory, cpu, can be sold on ebay. The steel cases, wires, copper and aluminum can be sold tpo the scrap yards. So I've come to realise that not all that glitters can be worth way more than the gold within.

[askems]

@GooglFascists

1 gram is 1/28 of an ounce

[hyropath]

@askems not in this case

[hyropath]

@askems Gold is weighed in Troy ounces. A Troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams so ! gram is 1/31.1 etc of an ounce in this case. Things like, say,pot! might be sold in a 28 gram ounce. I imagine?

[askems]

@hyropath

Whos this ass Troy and why does he gotta put a turd in the punchbowl? Thank you for the info and yes pot or any other street pharmaceutical is usually measured by 28/g oz. as well as anything we'd be using in the lab for data collections and research. Not meth lab

[carefreeforever]

@hyropath its 26 grams per ounce - commoner!

[9527p]

@GooglFascists there is only just over 28 grams in an ounce

[llotek]

@9527p they are talking troy ounces...31.103 grams

[Gizziiusa]

@GooglFascists "You'd make more profit shoveling sh*t behind an elephant parade." ha, never heard that one before. made my day.

[yukonrott]

@GooglFascists dammit i took a drink of coke as i read ur comment and now i have coke all over my laptop that was straight to the point and HILARIOUS...

[BaltimoreSandra]

80 computers will give you one gram of gold.

[BillKville]

I aw a video that stated it takes 25,000 cell phones to produce 1 kilo of gold. I believe that to be high. I think the maker of the video meant to say 1 ounce.

[Dualspec]

the mats. to extract and refine cost more then the output of gold at end. Just read a 18 pages report, becourse i was curious aswel :-)

Another thing i found out to add, is that Motherboards in computers today produced in year 2011, will cost 10% more then pre-year for the average customer to buy, becourse of the copper-prices alone.

Interesting ;-)

[odin422]

hmmm good question

[komoru]

"circuit boards contain the highest precious metal values. One metric ton of circuit boards can contain between 80 and 1,500 g of gold" (Veldhuizen and Sippel, 1994).

[solomonkane23]

the cpu pins are in plane sight, once removed from the ziff socket. all you need to get the gold are a pair of pliers and a propane torch.

[solomonkane23]

a computer has about $100 worth of 24k gold located in about 300 pins on the cpu.

[greggh]

@solomonkane23 You are way off. Those pins are plated and contain a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of gold.

[seka1986]

My guess is you would need 3 or 4 tons of computer parts and a lot of toxic chemicals to extract one ounce. Definitely not worth it.