Recovering Gold from E-Waste without Chemicals

Still waiting for the crucible to arrive from china so I thought i'd have a competition to see if anyone can come up with the percentage of gold I will get from the 90g of foils after I melt them down..

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxRPvwr4tnk[/youtube]

 

"Still waiting for the crucible to arrive from china so I thought i'd have a competition to see if anyone can come up with the percentage of gold I will get from the 90g of foils after I melt them down.."


My guess: the square root of feck all.

 

yeah, I didn't know that was gold on my sim card even though it was gold colored

 

I say just less than 1 carat, so 3gm
better than noithing

 

You'll need to put your entry in on youtube, just comment your answer so everyone can see it and no confusion.

Yeah Gold on sim cards, and if you think how many millions of sim cards are thrown out every year, that's gold gone for good.
People just bend them up and toss them out.

 

Great. That should help to boost the value of the gold I own, which is the important gold!

 

well that just says you have no gold, maybe 6oz of silver, it's in your text algorithm

Two rules with stacking gold.

Rule 1: don't talk about your gold.
Rule 2: don't talk about your gold.

Two rules for those with no gold.

Rule 1: talk about your gold.
Rule 2: talk about your gold.

 

How long until you get the 1000 fingers done?

 

only doing the foils from 500 ram sticks, everyone convinced me it was going to be a small ratio of gold so I didn't want to do the other 500 as i'm not into the chemical side at this stage.

I'm just waiting for the crucible to arrive so hopefully through the week it will be done.

 

Still waiting for the crucible to arrive from china so I thought i'd have a competition to see if anyone can come up with the percentage of gold I will get from the 90g of foils after I melt them down..

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxRPvwr4tnk[/youtube]

 

Perfect.

 

Well I finally completed this challenge.
melted the charred foils after the map gas failure and here's the results from the unrefined foils..

Assay results: 86.46% Copper - 10.09% Nickel - 3.45% Gold

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTPb_rx7LE[/youtube]

 

I was close.

Too too low return for a business unless processing many multiple kilos.

But for a hobbyist still could be fun to try out home refining.

Maybe selling it on eBay will give you the best return, melt it down again and divided into 3 buttons of 28gm each and list it it auction at spot it is still holding $50 dollars of gold each.