How much work do you suppose it took to recover the gold, including salvaging and cutting all those 'fingers.' Seems to me that one would be better off getting a 2nd job.
The grocery store near me has a public bulletin board near the entrance where people can post things for garage sales, job offers, stuff for sale, missing people, etc. Basically it's an old-school version of Craig's List. From time to time I'll see a posting that'll have something like "LOOKING TO BUY OLD BROKEN ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, CIRCUIT BOARDS, ETC." For a while I wondered why somebody would want broken electronics and PCBs. Now I know, thanks to this video.
That's pretty cool lol I'm sure I'll never do this, but it's a really interesting thing to see done. I like that all the steps were covered pretty thoroughly so if it came down to it, I could figure it out by just watching this.
Lets see here...he made 1.47 grams of gold...which at current market rates would go for...38 dollars. 38 dollars. How much did all those chemicals cost? How about the equipment? How about all the time getting those electronic parts? Doesn't seem worth it.
Audiodump I think it's more of a hobby than a way to get rich. I'm assuming he gets the electronic parts from a scrapyard or something, so he probably doesn't pay for them or maybe very little.
Aragiss I dunno, judging from the channel it seems like he's demonstrating this stuff as a way of showing people how to make money. And it is true you can make money doing this, but you need to do it on an industrial scale.
+ABDULSALAM DOMINO There isn't enough gold in your computer to be worth it. Typically, it's only found in the CPU and a couple of parts, and the average computer or cell phone holds very little of it. Honestly, the copper would be worth more than all of the gold.
In Quebec, there is some deposit boxes for old electronics devices, and they show some ads on TV saying «electronics parts are bad for environment, bring it to us»
Fascinating; as someone who was totally uninterested in chemistry at school I found this much easier to follow than most of what our teachers droned on about. I have five enormous crates of PCBs (about 300 kgs) but sadly no acids, no respirator of fume hood and most of all no time so they'll be off to the recycling centre to make someone else's "fortune" as soon as I can get organised.
darci480 You are kidding right? 300 kgs would have approximately 0.03 to 0.04 kg of pure gold. Do people on here just make shit up in their head and spout them off as fact?
m0t0rcade Sadly you're right; I can't even find a scrap dealer locally to take them because PCBs contain so many other dangerous substances. They were in the outhouse when I bought the place, along with several drums of very old industrial lubricants . . . But hey, that's OIL right? Must be worth at least, I dunno, a thousand bucks.
I cringed expecting an explosion every time you poured water into acid. It will happen eventually if you keep on doing it that way; Always pour the water first. Always.
***** Gold like all commodities does not go up in price every year. At it's highest in 2011 a kg of gold was worth nearly $60,000. Today that same kg of gold is worth $38,380.
Nice! I use to work in electroplating and have to ask, The gold foils particles will be 99.5 percent gold. After dissolving and reprecipitating, you might be 99 percent, but if you take that to sell, they will charge you a refining fee for further purification. Why not just collect the gold foil and melt it?
The individual foil pieces are a small fraction of a milligram in weight. Because they're each so light, it doesn't take much of a breeze (or convection current from the melting crucible) to literally blow them away.
With the pieces being so lightweight, it's not simply a matter of simply putting them into a container and fusing them together. Most flames don't reach the 1945 F / 1090 C required to melt 24K gold. (a butane lighter flame is around 800C) Long before the temperature is hot enough to soften the pieces, convection currents from the heating will cause the pieces to become airborne.
The difficulty here is that these extremely light pieces act more like dust or confetti then the heavy metal we are used to in everyday settings. Because of the convection currents, the scene inside the hot container "oven" would resemble a shook-up snow-globe paperweight.While the gold foils would each melt into balls, they would only melt together if the pieces struck each other. It would take several dozen fusings before a piece's weight overcomes its tendency to float around on the breezes about it.
Yes, while eventually the pieces would collide with each other and fuse, it would take far longer (weeks) than we would want to wait. The method used at the end of this video of dissolving them in acid, besides also being the first step in refining, is much faster and far less costly than the gas/power to hold a kiln oven at around 1100 C for several days.
***** Focusing solar energy onto these pieces won't help here because unlike a gold ring, these pieces are not heavy enough to stay put. As soon as the surroundings warm up, and long before the pieces are hot enough to become molten, convection currents will blow the pieces about in random directions.
It actually works! I bought a scrap computer for 5 dollars from the Salvation Army and after doing this I was sitting on 1 million dollars worth of gold! I now own a mansion, a private jet, and 3 small countries in Africa!
Are all of you trying to be trolls? This was a how to video of getting the gold out. This was not "how to be lazy and make a ton of money from people's trash" video. He was showing you the fundamentals, using this method with a metric crap ton of recovered electronic scrap you can make quite a substantial amount. You have to just put the time and effort. All at one time or split up. Just have fun but be careful as he states in the video. Follow directions people and listen Damnit!
I watched the whole thing, everything was fantastic and perfectly clear until the end when I was utterly confused by what APPEARS to be the gold having been turned into a liquid solution. It seems to me he did this step without forewarning that this would happen nor was any explanation provided as to what happened to the gold or how to recover the gold from this gold colored liquid or why it is even necessary to take it to this level of dissolution.. As a complete noob I want to know these things. I clicked on the other videos and there was no further explanation. Frustrating.
You are correct in what that last part appears to be, but I also failed to initially follow the "why" of that part of dissolving the gold foil completely in "aqua regia". (Nitrohydrochloric acid - one of the only acids capable of dissolving pure gold) One guess is that this method allows recovery without risking the the extremely thin (measured in tens of microns [1 micron = 0.001 of a mm or 0.00004 inches]) gold foil pieces becoming airborne and lost. Recovery of gold from the aqua regia can be as simple as neutralizing the acid with something alkaline.
JimShew2 no u cant neutralize a.r to get gold... its like sugar solution .. only to get iit is by precipitating the gold.. thats how u get 99.9% pure gold.. if u nneutralizea.r u may get gold compounds in which gold is impure.. to do that... u need to add a precipitating agent
Rudra Chakraborti Thanks, Not having dissolved any gold myself, I was relying upon theory, not proven fact. Being a newby at this also, I thought the AR step was just to prevent the gold foils from blowing away, not a first step in purifying the recovered gold.
Awesome video! You have an amazing radio voice. I understand it's scrap but this kinda seems like a negative financial impact? Are you doing this more for fun?
IT WORK ! I JUST GOT 2 KG OF GOLD WHILE MELTING AND USING 100 FINGER AND I JUST SELL IT FOR OVER THOUSAND AND I JUST BROGHT AN AMD GAMING REVOLUTION COMPUTER ! THANKS YOU INDEEDTDOES FOR THIS TIP
While this is interesting, I can't help but wonder how many computers/electronics are needed to obtain a single ounce of gold. The video showed a considerable pile of connectors, far more than what you'd get from a single PC and the net result looked like it was perhaps a half ounce of gold. I can't help but wonder just how economical this method is when you consider the cost of chemicals and associated hardware. I'm not knocking the process, but I do think the poster could have done a better job explaining the source materials, costs and results.
And what about the silver and the copper, both also nice materials to win back from scrap. What would happen if we just melted everything and then sort it out after the melting process, refining the gold and the silver from that awkward alloy?
This would be something that could be productive on a large scale, but for the typical Joe, the dangers of the acid and the garbage produced seems like it would not be worth it whatsoever
The chips and RAM are often worth more alone than the gold. Like 1 stick of good ram will cost $30, but it would probably take 30 sticks of RAM to get $30 worth of gold. What say you?
+Joshman601 Wow! Amazing! Incredible! You're so good! Now please tell me. How much 1 stick of bad ram is worth and what 30 sticks of bad ram are worth? Because, damn, I can't use brain and you're such a genius!
Interesting! do you think with all the material you have used and consider the electricity and all the costs is very effective if you want to sell that little piece of gold?
3-4 days of work for 250 from parts he probably got free,I'll take it..amazing some of you make bout 400wk and you think process isn't worth it. wow,not trying to be disrespectful I bust my arse just as hard,but come on ppl,think a little
yes I have one question about recovering gold from gold fingers I have done my first batch of gold fingers approximately a pound and a half when I add them to the solution of hydrochloric acid and copper two sulfate some of the fingers remain a bright gold color other ones turned more of a copper color I was wondering if they use brass instead of gold sometimes because of the way some of the fingers look like they tarnished I would really appreciate your response and again thank you for your wonderful videos
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez it would take about 50 lbs of junk memory sticks and cpu's per a week, to make it worth it though, minus the cost to do this process etc. it's basically a fulltime job to do all that, and by then you would be better off just getting a fulltime job. thought thats just how I feel. /shrug
Average price of equipment required: Gallon of copper chloride solution: 60$-90$ Gallon of hydrochloric acid: 55$-75$ Air bubbler: 30$-40$ Respirator: 10$-35$ Price of memory sticks: assuming they're free (you found them) Gas money: varies 1 gram of gold: roughly 22$ You would be better off working part time at burger king.
RedXuchilbara There's your problem. Per week? No one would do that because it is ridiculous. If you do it as they come it will be worth it. It is fairly cheap to get memory chips and old cpu's for dirt cheap prices even online. But like I said,doing nit for a living is ridiculous.
The processes shown in this video is absolutely ridiculous. I have recovered many troy lbs of gold from electronics scraps with a much easier, safer and faster method. instead of hydroelectric acid I used Nitric acid and water 50/50 mixture, the Nitric acid would dissolve the base metals in minuets instead of days. I could have separated the gold in this video in less than 1/2 hour. when the Nitris acid is finished (full of copper) it can be evaporated in a pan the remaining salts are copper salts and can also be sold. Nitric acid is far safer to work with, I got acid on my skin many times the only time I have ever been burned by it was if there was an existing injury that was exposed to the acid. I have even had it splash into my eyes once or twice with out any problems I simply washed it out. The fumes created however are quite noxious and this should only be done out doors or under a hood. A couple notes with this method: Nitric acid doesn't dissolve tin the tin or lead (solder)solder becomes a gray past in the bottom of the container so it is best to remove as much solder as possible before progressing the scrap. secondly nickle isn't dissolved either it generally breaks up into very small flakes and is removed in a secondary process I used involving mercury. this process involved amalgamating the gold in mercury then separating the gold from the mercury in a retort this process was very efficient and I recovered all the mercury to be reused again. The resulting gold was averaging 98.6% pure gold. I only stopped recovering gold because it became harder and harder to find good gold scraps, a sign of the times I guess they use less and less gold in electronics now.
Also you recovered less than 1/2 gram of gold from the amount of scraps you processed. the fingers you used look to be from more modern circuit boards the gold is very thin, try some old Digital Corporation circuit boards from the PDP series computers you will be amazed at the difference in the thickness of the plating. the first computer I scraped was a small PDP8 computer, I recovered 3.4 ounce of gold from this one computer alone.
floyd ster Hello Floyd I wish I could however it has been many years since I have done any gold recovery, I no longer have the equipment, gold scraps or access to Nitric acid I once did. If you want to give it a try visit your local chemical supply house, I used to buy it in 8 gal stainless steal carboys this was generally 70% Nitric acid. I could recover about 4 to 6 oz troy with 8 gal. of acid This was before 9/11 Nitric acid in higher % can be used to make explosives so I'm not sure of the availability these days without obtaining permits. If you try it two things I didn't mention was the filter method and the etching container, the gold gets pretty agitated and breaks up into some pretty small particles (depending on the thickness of the plating) so took a 1 gal plastic jar ( big 1 gal mayonnaise jar was best) cut a large round hole in the screw on top, then lay silk screen cloth over the opening and replaced the screw on top, then cut off the bottom of the jar it made a great filter to pour through, the other thing I used was a 5 gal plastic bucket never put more than 2 gal of acid in the 5 gal. bucket or it will foam over and you will loose gold all over the ground. (hard lesson learned) and never never add water to fresh acid always add acid to water. there can be a pretty good exothermic reaction otherwise (another hard learned lesson started to melt my buckets LOL) Good luck, if you try it let me know if you give it a try or have any questions. Wnorgress@gmail.com Weston
Hi, hope u are fine. My name is Ahsan. I need ur help regarding gold recovery from CPU processor pins. I separated all pins by heating method and the put almost a 100g of them in a HCL 37% and Nitric Acid but instead of yellowish solution i got dark green or blackish kind of solution and after adding urea and sodium metabisulphite i got silver colour mud at the end on the base of beaker and solution is still of samr dark yellowish or dark green colour but i didnt found any black or brown mud. I need ur help please guide me if i am using wrong HCL as it is mentioned HCL 37% infusion, on the bottle. I am losing money in it. I shall be greatfull if u can share ur whatsapp number with me so i can send u videos of my present expriment situations. Regards, Ahsan, +971504545062.
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Well Sir,, Its just Great to Say that your method is a clear example of WASTE to WEALTH, I am Impressed - GOOD and hope people benefit from ithis good clear explanation of video.
I've seen videos on YT of people stripping off the gold-plated fingers by simply applying heat and pressure. That way you have a lot less non-gold material to remove. PCBs and components may have gold on them elsewhere, but the gold content is really small and/or hard to extract.
Hi Moose Lee again, I have got 600 fingers, how much muriatic acid and peroxide would you suggest for this amount, I also have 25 cell phone boards and can I you this process as well.
Just enough to cover them really. THe solution can hold about 2lbs of copper and nickel per gallon and there is very little copper in those fingers. As for the peroxide, one part 3% peroxide to 4 parts HCL 31.45 % should do the trick. I would however, really recommend the air bubbler system. As for the cell boards, if they are clean they can be processed this same way.
Ummm it's a hobby! A hobby that actually yields mans most coveted commodity since the dawn of civilization! Come home from work check it out strain it,go in 4 dinner go to work on Sunday got some pure gold,instead of a baseball,a beer,fantasy football you got a collage fund in 20yrs. Only a fool mocks gold,you're a fool,sad.
+eblasphamy1 if it's a hobby, it's an interesting--albeit expensive, & pretty health hazardous one. sorry, but the rest of us non-autistic folk would prefer to sit down/relax, go out somewhere, & enjoy LIFE after a full time week at a job that makes us 100 times that money, in less than half the time & effort.
I have a question about your process. I see that you filter the gold/copper chloride solution, then dilute both in aqua regia. You then filter the mixture to obtain the aqua regia with the dissolved gold. My question is this: How can you filter this solution using a filter that can dissolve in aqua regia? Or is this rendered negligible with the following precipitation of the gold/filtering step?
Totally fake... Its all CGI and in the end what looks like a small piece of gold nugget is really a lump of earwax photoshopped to look like a gold nugget. Its a classic tank and spank.
Wesam Riyad Al Qadi way to troll those who dont know chemistry. . . lol what am I saying, I would so do what you just did. messing with people who dont know stuff is fun
+7Earthsky Plus the cost of the chemicals... Plus the glassware/tubing... plus the bubbler... plus the hot plate... plus whatever he spent to buy the old computer hardware.
This is pretty much why places that collect electronic stuff for reclaiming precious metals will take as much as they can get their hands on. There are several places in Massachusetts that process it in bulk, enough to fit one or two flatbed trucks. On the other hand, once the initial investment has been made, it will begin to pay for itself, if you're in the habit of collecting that much old gear.
+chris anders (chris anders seeds) yep, Im currently studying electricity, but ive never had the change to fully study how to estimate the cost of electricity
Joshua Hill hi in the last week I've heard 3 DIFFRENT guys do how's it made him from scrapheap and one from 2005 there really getting there moneys worth out of there old film stock I'm into that extreme engineering a bit same channel but I watch a shed load of TV way too much at times
You make it sound so easy and simple...But you fail to mention where do you get all those boards ?? Where do you get the different acids ?? and copper solution ???/
ZXTMA Smith 4 to 5 grams @ $35-40/gram = pretty good money for what $12 worth of chemicals and maybe $25 worth of equipment. NICE! but accumulating enough boards and connectors to salvage that amount of gold will take a long time. he showed approx 30 computers worth of fingers (~4 per computer)
Nope not worth it, the amount of time you spend getting a tiny bit of gold out of it which isn't worth enough for the labor involved. You will make more money just working at a job than getting gold out this way. Unless you have a giant version of this where you can get a lot of gold out, in which case you will have to spend a ton of money to make this a viable thing.
i once found a solid piece of pure gold in a riverbed just like that. sold if for almost 80€. recovering/working with gold rly makes one happy im tellin ya =)
dodgedaytona25 He's just talking about splashing and cautious teachers, I'm sure. Whatever liquid is being poured will travel to the bottom of whatever container it is being poured into--the liquid already in the container will splash out. If acid is already present and water is being poured too fast or from too high, the acid will splash out and possibly cause damage to self or property.
Christopher Pinterich Actually, he's talking about pouring concentrated acids into water. Strictly speaking, only denser-than-water liquids would travel to the bottom of a container filled with water. If you poured certain alcohols into water (or oil, for that matter), they would float, not sink. The height from which you pour is definitely a variable, but If you're adding H2SO4 into a large volume of water, it isn't all that bad as the reaction is contained by the large volume of water- water isn't as dense, so acid, when poured into water sinks instantly, and the reaction occurs closer to the bottom of a beaker or container. However, if you do it the other way round, i.e. pour water into a large volume of conc. H2SO4, you instantly get a highly volatile reaction as the H2SO4 vigorously reacts with ALL the water, nearly instantly. Moreover, since the water isn't as dense, the reaction occurs mostly at the top, causing the reaction to fizzle, splash out etc.
I'd guess you got around 0.1 gram of gold? (BTW, will you be making the average of the guesses? That'd be interesting to compare to the actual value, with enough guesses.)
The equipment, yes. The acid is reusable to a limited degree. Even if you broke even, is it worth your time in collecting all of the gold plating? -- probably not. Still is interesting.
Is it very complicated and/or expensive (minus the price of the gold) to turn small, powder like flakes of gold, like the ones produced here in the video, into gold-leaf, as in the paper sheets of gold people use for art and crafts?
not sure if Golds going to be as useful as food, but yes people will use it and the Dollar is the last economic currency to go, other countries have already claimed bankruptcy. America has done a good job in forcing the collapse to happen much faster by going into debt more and more and its as if they want it to happen.The Last 30 years the Just kept adding onto the Trillions, where are they spending that money? I think in underground Bunkers and bases. Besides the secret space programs. Conspiracy, most likely The E.U. is behind it in my opinion.
+David Chase oh no the government is taking the American taxes and giving it to the aliens! I find these kind of conspiracy theories to be really retarded. anyone who believes them is just as retarded
These conspiracy theorists are nuts but they do have a point to be worried about the dollar collapsing, if anything does it it's going to be the too big to fail banks, bigger than in 2008, doing all the shady shit with sub-prime lending again.
6 grams is 1/5th ounce. gold is 1236 dollars per ounce this makes it about $247.50. From this we have to figure what you have paid for the starting, our time is worth and the materials. Figure as a guess $100 dollars. This means that after a week you have made about $150.00 and possibly less. This may pay on a larger scale.
***** Hi, it depends if you use a metric ounce of 30g per ounce or a Troy ounce (29.95g) , which is quite close. If the daily price is $1236 x 6g/30g =$247.20. or 5 divided into 1236. Check this by multipying $247.2 times 5 to get the original starting figure. Best, Nick
if you do it on the side its a nice bit of extra money fora small hobby. did you now people in some third world countries do this as their only source of income? they go to dump(yah america sends alot of trash to third world countries) to get any computer parts to do this with
Nicholas Sceusa Actually, a metric ounce is 25 grams it's not widely used. The most common ounces are AVDP or "standard" ounce which is 28.3 grams, and the troy ounce, which is what gold is measured in on the stock exchange @ 31.1 grams per ounce. So, if you were wanting to know the price of gold per gram, you would divide the current bid price ($1322.30 today) by 31.1 to get the price per gram. If you factor in the cost of all the materials used in this process, including electricity to run the air pump, heat plate etc. it's virtually impossible to make money from gold plated components, even if you get the components free.
This is really impressive. But counting the price of materials used for this (acid and stuff) and the value of your time, is it worth the price in gold you get in the long run?
Is this finished product 24k gold? ie colloidal gold and the liquid with all the dissolved gold is it alkaline or acidic, would it burn your skin, very interested in this
Thank you very much for the prompt response and the info. Very informative. I've been working as a mechanic for over 45 yrs and you've helped see that I've been wasting a lot of scrap instead of stripping it down. Ford starter solenoids have a lot of copper in them, but over the years, I just tossed 'em when they went bad. I used to sell old starters and alternators to rebuilder's, but it would seem no one rebuilds them anymore. GM starters are pretty easy to remove all the copper form the armature, and I just figured out how to do it on Fords. I look forward to learning more from you and if you ever have a need for any help on your vehicle and I can help you out, please do not hesitate to ask. Shal' aam Aleichem AAPiY Mike
Mike Paul That's awesome! Glad I could be of help to you. I have been wanting to make a video on scrapping a starter and an alternator but I do not come across car parts too often. Are you able to make a video of you taking a starter apart? I would love to see it! Thanks!
Mike Paul i work for the largest starter/alternator manufacturer in the world. I can tell you exactly where all the copper is and how to get it out easily without damaging it.
Haha those claiming to be 40s something year vets in the field they claim or working at a huge company seems pretty random and in fact pretty bullshitty.
Can't knock it for a hobby. It's a great method. I don't always take as many steps as this, i just use muriatic acid and hydrogen peroxide and it doesn't take me more then a couple of days each batch.
Holy shit that real gold? You can try making an even bigger batch to get more gold and pawn that for a couple hundred. My guess for that piece of gold is about 3oz
well think about the cost of all the materials and the oppurunity cost he wastes by spending hours with this process... not worth it for a tiny bit of gold worth around $60
Is it possible to just use some tools to pull the gold off of the "fingers" instead of using acid? I mean it would take a lot longer but is it possible? Or is the gold coverered by copper aswell? Sorry don't know much about this :P
Great video, I'm planning to attempt this myself but want to be as safe as possible(within my spending limit). I lack a fume hood and bought a 3M tekk mask pro multi-purpose with cartridges that say the protect from certain organic vapors, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide or hydrogen fluoride or hydrogen sulfide and particles. Would this be sufficient to use if process is done outside? Was considering maybe a SCBA but wouldn't know where to start. Also, what containers would be good for storing/transporting the waste acid to turn in for proper disposal? Any info greatly appreciated.
Wooow ... I went asking for the chemicals ...police thought I was a supporter of PMOI and Isis .... and that was before everyone asked why I wanted 10,000 old computers
I am a gold miner and my question is. I save all my black sand and heavies after I reclaim all my gold but have always wondered if the black sand and fines I have left over have any microscopic amounts of gold in it to recover still or if it's just garbage at that point.
+The Great Gyrofluff This has nothing to do with creating gold. This is simply extracting gold from other metals. Chemists have known this for dozens of years.
good work indeedltdoes
What is the gold's purity and value?
I say 932
RedKobra 1.47g of 24Kt (AKA 100%) when he gets done... So, roughly $60(USD) of value at current market average of around $1,200(USD)/oz.
How much work do you suppose it took to recover the gold, including salvaging and cutting all those 'fingers.' Seems to me that one would be better off getting a 2nd job.
New law: All RUclips videos must be narrated by this dude.
is it just me or would this guy be a great narrator for a little kids movie?
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sounds like the narrator from how it's made
+Revolutioningmarijuana yes lol
"and here's a little HydroChloric Acid, kids. Don't make meth with it!"
how much would gold meth be worth?
So how many connectors did you use and how much gold did you get out of them? Total cost vs total worth in gold would be nice to know as well.
my neighbors probly think im making meth
Very similar process
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The grocery store near me has a public bulletin board near the entrance where people can post things for garage sales, job offers, stuff for sale, missing people, etc. Basically it's an old-school version of Craig's List.
From time to time I'll see a posting that'll have something like "LOOKING TO BUY OLD BROKEN ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, CIRCUIT BOARDS, ETC." For a while I wondered why somebody would want broken electronics and PCBs. Now I know, thanks to this video.
Absolutely fascinating. It was like watching Bob Ross paint.
Yeah
This is too complicated.. I'm going back to ripping out copper wiring of abandoned houses
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Send me containers full...
Omg lmao
3 onz of gold is about $3,000 I think.
Ok
That's pretty cool lol I'm sure I'll never do this, but it's a really interesting thing to see done. I like that all the steps were covered pretty thoroughly so if it came down to it, I could figure it out by just watching this.
Lets see here...he made 1.47 grams of gold...which at current market rates would go for...38 dollars.
38 dollars.
How much did all those chemicals cost? How about the equipment? How about all the time getting those electronic parts? Doesn't seem worth it.
Audiodump I think it's more of a hobby than a way to get rich. I'm assuming he gets the electronic parts from a scrapyard or something, so he probably doesn't pay for them or maybe very little.
Aragiss
I dunno, judging from the channel it seems like he's demonstrating this stuff as a way of showing people how to make money. And it is true you can make money doing this, but you need to do it on an industrial scale.
Audiodump That's way more than 1.47 grams. More like 1.47 ounces.
Benjamin Walden
No, read the comments directly under the video. The poster told people to guess how much he made and then posted "Thanks guys. 1.47g"
Then it's a typo. I've dealt with gold. It weighs a lot. I've seen less gold then that weigh an ounce.
wow, I see this AFTER I gave all my old electronics away....XD
Same here hahahah
+ABDULSALAM DOMINO There isn't enough gold in your computer to be worth it. Typically, it's only found in the CPU and a couple of parts, and the average computer or cell phone holds very little of it. Honestly, the copper would be worth more than all of the gold.
+C3PO's Bottom Bit well thats like 100$ of lab work to get all of that so idk if thats really worth it
+vex zarkov but thats at least $700 worth of gold maybe even more.....you are going to make bank
Llarry Llama yea x3 just rember to keep your gasmask filters in check
I didn't know Penn Jillette had another channel.
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lol
Personally I was thinking Casey Kasem. But i suppose I can hear Penn.
LOL, THAT'S who it was! Well heard, Skullpuck.
i knew it
In Quebec, there is some deposit boxes for old electronics devices, and they show some ads on TV saying «electronics parts are bad for environment, bring it to us»
Fascinating; as someone who was totally uninterested in chemistry at school I found this much easier to follow than most of what our teachers droned on about. I have five enormous crates of PCBs (about 300 kgs) but sadly no acids, no respirator of fume hood and most of all no time so they'll be off to the recycling centre to make someone else's "fortune" as soon as I can get organised.
i dont know how much gold there is in 300kgs of pcbs, but im gessing at least 1 kg of pure gold in that, and that is 41000$. So keep them
darci480 You are kidding right? 300 kgs would have approximately 0.03 to 0.04 kg of pure gold. Do people on here just make shit up in their head and spout them off as fact?
m0t0rcade Sadly you're right; I can't even find a scrap dealer locally to take them because PCBs contain so many other dangerous substances. They were in the outhouse when I bought the place, along with several drums of very old industrial lubricants . . . But hey, that's OIL right? Must be worth at least, I dunno, a thousand bucks.
Glad to see amazing and informative things Dr.khalid(PhD Electrical engineering)
Its so much easier on minecraft.
yes
ya. but in minecraft it has no use lol
NOTCH APPLESSSSSSS
Agathor747's gaming Golden apples, powered rails... probably loads more, plus aesthetics.
Golden Carrot^
My wife won't let me use the kitchen ware.
poor guy
Smart woman!
My wife gets really pissed when I steal the kitchen stuff for use in the garage. 😆
thumps up my dear friend..video love it.
I cringed expecting an explosion every time you poured water into acid. It will happen eventually if you keep on doing it that way; Always pour the water first. Always.
"never water acids" is something i've heard about. i stick to it just in case. :)
but how about gastric acid added with water?
so, in other words, not worth it?
It's worth
Ri Ji I'm guessing all this equipment, chemicals, and especially PCBs cost him more than the $50 in gold he got out of it
Not if ure a chemestry techer muahahahahah, AKA Walter White xD
Kyli Rouge the first time yes but its reusable so its like a 1 time fee for moste of the stuff
MinkiGamer John true, but I still think it's not a profitable venture unless most of it is donated
it is a great idea for a high school science project. i think my students will love this. thanks!
Recipe in making the solution costs more than the gold retrieved...
This is a demo , in other circumstances a person would probably use more quantity
Bullshit!
The Acid peroxide can be used over and over again for countless batches.....clearly you know nothing.
+eyeopener1979 jon snow.....
eyeopener1979 .
Alot of work for very little reward.
He said he got about 1.47 g of gold. That's currently valued about $60. Little reward? I guess.
***** Gold like all commodities does not go up in price every year.
At it's highest in 2011 a kg of gold was worth nearly $60,000. Today that same kg of gold is worth $38,380.
Coppertunes Or in other words, a dollar was worth 0.017 grams of gold, and today is worth 0.026 grams. It's amazing how much paper money fluctuates.
Mark Rose Cute, but gold's price isn't...solid!
RandomJ0e Sure, the price isn't, but the gold stays exactly the same.
Excellent! Simple and easy!
Nice! I use to work in electroplating and have to ask, The gold foils particles will be 99.5 percent gold. After dissolving and reprecipitating, you might be 99 percent, but if you take that to sell, they will charge you a refining fee for further purification. Why not just collect the gold foil and melt it?
The individual foil pieces are a small fraction of a milligram in weight. Because they're each so light, it doesn't take much of a breeze (or convection current from the melting crucible) to literally blow them away.
With the pieces being so lightweight, it's not simply a matter of simply putting them into a container and fusing them together. Most flames don't reach the 1945 F / 1090 C required to melt 24K gold. (a butane lighter flame is around 800C) Long before the temperature is hot enough to soften the pieces, convection currents from the heating will cause the pieces to become airborne.
The difficulty here is that these extremely light pieces act more like dust or confetti then the heavy metal we are used to in everyday settings. Because of the convection currents, the scene inside the hot container "oven" would resemble a shook-up snow-globe paperweight.While the gold foils would each melt into balls, they would only melt together if the pieces struck each other. It would take several dozen fusings before a piece's weight overcomes its tendency to float around on the breezes about it.
Yes, while eventually the pieces would collide with each other and fuse, it would take far longer (weeks) than we would want to wait. The method used at the end of this video of dissolving them in acid, besides also being the first step in refining, is much faster and far less costly than the gas/power to hold a kiln oven at around 1100 C for several days.
***** Focusing solar energy onto these pieces won't help here because unlike a gold ring, these pieces are not heavy enough to stay put. As soon as the surroundings warm up, and long before the pieces are hot enough to become molten, convection currents will blow the pieces about in random directions.
It actually works! I bought a scrap computer for 5 dollars from the Salvation Army and after doing this I was sitting on 1 million dollars worth of gold! I now own a mansion, a private jet, and 3 small countries in Africa!
Are all of you trying to be trolls? This was a how to video of getting the gold out. This was not "how to be lazy and make a ton of money from people's trash" video. He was showing you the fundamentals, using this method with a metric crap ton of recovered electronic scrap you can make quite a substantial amount. You have to just put the time and effort. All at one time or split up. Just have fun but be careful as he states in the video. Follow directions people and listen Damnit!
I watched the whole thing, everything was fantastic and perfectly clear until the end when I was utterly confused by what APPEARS to be the gold having been turned into a liquid solution. It seems to me he did this step without forewarning that this would happen nor was any explanation provided as to what happened to the gold or how to recover the gold from this gold colored liquid or why it is even necessary to take it to this level of dissolution.. As a complete noob I want to know these things. I clicked on the other videos and there was no further explanation. Frustrating.
You are correct in what that last part appears to be, but I also failed to initially follow the "why" of that part of dissolving the gold foil completely in "aqua regia". (Nitrohydrochloric acid - one of the only acids capable of dissolving pure gold) One guess is that this method allows recovery without risking the the extremely thin (measured in tens of microns [1 micron = 0.001 of a mm or 0.00004 inches]) gold foil pieces becoming airborne and lost. Recovery of gold from the aqua regia can be as simple as neutralizing the acid with something alkaline.
JimShew2 no u cant neutralize a.r to get gold... its like sugar solution .. only to get iit is by precipitating the gold.. thats how u get 99.9% pure gold.. if u nneutralizea.r u may get gold compounds in which gold is impure.. to do that... u need to add a precipitating agent
Rudra Chakraborti Thanks, Not having dissolved any gold myself, I was relying upon theory, not proven fact.
Being a newby at this also, I thought the AR step was just to prevent the gold foils from blowing away, not a first step in purifying the recovered gold.
its totally safe.. u wont believe.. i had dissolved platinum.. and got it in free form.. but only 1 gm...
Rudra Chakraborti i have a hard time believing you know how to do this from textual observations
How much grams of gold did you get?
very nice tutorial. from now on i will buy everyday new computer in able to get gold from this great idea.
Awesome video! You have an amazing radio voice. I understand it's scrap but this kinda seems like a negative financial impact? Are you doing this more for fun?
No he is doing it for views...and the money google gives for the advertising on these videos.
You Remind me of "BREAKING BAD" The Gold Edition
IT WORK ! I JUST GOT 2 KG OF GOLD WHILE MELTING AND USING 100 FINGER AND I JUST SELL IT FOR OVER THOUSAND AND I JUST BROGHT AN AMD GAMING REVOLUTION COMPUTER ! THANKS YOU INDEEDTDOES FOR THIS TIP
While this is interesting, I can't help but wonder how many computers/electronics are needed to obtain a single ounce of gold. The video showed a considerable pile of connectors, far more than what you'd get from a single PC and the net result looked like it was perhaps a half ounce of gold.
I can't help but wonder just how economical this method is when you consider the cost of chemicals and associated hardware. I'm not knocking the process, but I do think the poster could have done a better job explaining the source materials, costs and results.
The average smartphone will contain about $1.87 in gold. You need a ton of components for this
Your voice sounds like batman with a cold.
And what about the silver and the copper, both also nice materials to win back from scrap. What would happen if we just melted everything and then sort it out after the melting process, refining the gold and the silver from that awkward alloy?
Just add salt to the solution after gold taken out, recover the silver from the silver chloride by heating it in a muffle with some caustic
This would be something that could be productive on a large scale, but for the typical Joe, the dangers of the acid and the garbage produced seems like it would not be worth it whatsoever
Someone will likely get cancer from attempting this lol
The chips and RAM are often worth more alone than the gold. Like 1 stick of good ram will cost $30, but it would probably take 30 sticks of RAM to get $30 worth of gold. What say you?
+Joshman601 Wow! Amazing! Incredible! You're so good! Now please tell me. How much 1 stick of bad ram is worth and what 30 sticks of bad ram are worth? Because, damn, I can't use brain and you're such a genius!
Interesting! do you think with all the material you have used and consider the electricity and all the costs is very effective if you want to sell that little piece of gold?
The first ingredient was FREE Hydrochloric acid...
does the cost of buying the acids filter paper out way the cost of the gold??
+brian wheway i suppose that depends on how many times you recover gold
very awesome you'd been taught us a recovery of gold,can you try other precious minerals such us silver,?thanks
3-4 days of work for 250 from parts he probably got free,I'll take it..amazing some of you make bout 400wk and you think process isn't worth it. wow,not trying to be disrespectful I bust my arse just as hard,but come on ppl,think a little
Not worth it because of the dangerous acids
@@FrancisR420 what's life without a little danger?
would this solution also work on dissolving bodies?
airbubba1 it sure melted those fingers down
airbubba1 , Hydrochloric acid works but Sulfuric acid works faster. Googled that.
Viking Power thanks...VERY useful info here
airbubba1 ,Or you bury them deep with 50 kilos of quick lime. Keeps the smell down and dissolves everything.
Kinda sick u even got a response from anyone on this question. Lmao
yes I have one question about recovering gold from gold fingers I have done my first batch of gold fingers approximately a pound and a half when I add them to the solution of hydrochloric acid and copper two sulfate some of the fingers remain a bright gold color other ones turned more of a copper color I was wondering if they use brass instead of gold sometimes because of the way some of the fingers look like they tarnished I would really appreciate your response and again thank you for your wonderful videos
1.47g Gold, that's around $70 buck worth of gold?
seems hardly worth.
Not really.
If you do this a couple of time it becomes very worth it.
Considering how you can get junk memory sticks and cpu's almost for free.
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it would take about 50 lbs of junk memory sticks and cpu's per a week, to make it worth it though, minus the cost to do this process etc. it's basically a fulltime job to do all that, and by then you would be better off just getting a fulltime job. thought thats just how I feel. /shrug
Average price of equipment required:
Gallon of copper chloride solution: 60$-90$
Gallon of hydrochloric acid: 55$-75$
Air bubbler: 30$-40$
Respirator: 10$-35$
Price of memory sticks: assuming they're free (you found them)
Gas money: varies
1 gram of gold: roughly 22$
You would be better off working part time at burger king.
kasey7638 Truth!
RedXuchilbara
There's your problem.
Per week?
No one would do that because it is ridiculous.
If you do it as they come it will be worth it.
It is fairly cheap to get memory chips and old cpu's for dirt cheap prices even online.
But like I said,doing nit for a living is ridiculous.
"I'm Casey Kasem and that's the end of the 7 day count down."
The processes shown in this video is absolutely ridiculous. I have recovered many troy lbs of gold from electronics scraps with a much easier, safer and faster method. instead of hydroelectric acid I used Nitric acid and water 50/50 mixture, the Nitric acid would dissolve the base metals in minuets instead of days. I could have separated the gold in this video in less than 1/2 hour. when the Nitris acid is finished (full of copper) it can be evaporated in a pan the remaining salts are copper salts and can also be sold. Nitric acid is far safer to work with, I got acid on my skin many times the only time I have ever been burned by it was if there was an existing injury that was exposed to the acid. I have even had it splash into my eyes once or twice with out any problems I simply washed it out. The fumes created however are quite noxious and this should only be done out doors or under a hood. A couple notes with this method: Nitric acid doesn't dissolve tin the tin or lead (solder)solder becomes a gray past in the bottom of the container so it is best to remove as much solder as possible before progressing the scrap. secondly nickle isn't dissolved either it generally breaks up into very small flakes and is removed in a secondary process I used involving mercury. this process involved amalgamating the gold in mercury then separating the gold from the mercury in a retort this process was very efficient and I recovered all the mercury to be reused again. The resulting gold was averaging 98.6% pure gold. I only stopped recovering gold because it became harder and harder to find good gold scraps, a sign of the times I guess they use less and less gold in electronics now.
Sorry I meant to say Hydrochloric acid spell checker strikes again.
Also you recovered less than 1/2 gram of gold from the amount of scraps you processed. the fingers you used look to be from more modern circuit boards the gold is very thin, try some old Digital Corporation circuit boards from the PDP series computers you will be amazed at the difference in the thickness of the plating. the first computer I scraped was a small PDP8 computer, I recovered 3.4 ounce of gold from this one computer alone.
Weston Norgress can u give a demonstration, im being serious its something id like to see
floyd ster Hello Floyd I wish I could however it has been many years since I have done any gold recovery, I no longer have the equipment, gold scraps or access to Nitric acid I once did. If you want to give it a try visit your local chemical supply house, I used to buy it in 8 gal stainless steal carboys this was generally 70% Nitric acid. I could recover about 4 to 6 oz troy with 8 gal. of acid This was before 9/11 Nitric acid in higher % can be used to make explosives so I'm not sure of the availability these days without obtaining permits. If you try it two things I didn't mention was the filter method and the etching container, the gold gets pretty agitated and breaks up into some pretty small particles (depending on the thickness of the plating) so took a 1 gal plastic jar ( big 1 gal mayonnaise jar was best) cut a large round hole in the screw on top, then lay silk screen cloth over the opening and replaced the screw on top, then cut off the bottom of the jar it made a great filter to pour through, the other thing I used was a 5 gal plastic bucket never put more than 2 gal of acid in the 5 gal. bucket or it will foam over and you will loose gold all over the ground. (hard lesson learned) and never never add water to fresh acid always add acid to water. there can be a pretty good exothermic reaction otherwise (another hard learned lesson started to melt my buckets LOL) Good luck, if you try it let me know if you give it a try or have any questions. Wnorgress@gmail.com
Weston
Hi, hope u are fine. My name is Ahsan. I need ur help regarding gold recovery from CPU processor pins. I separated all pins by heating method and the put almost a 100g of them in a HCL 37% and Nitric Acid but instead of yellowish solution i got dark green or blackish kind of solution and after adding urea and sodium metabisulphite i got silver colour mud at the end on the base of beaker and solution is still of samr dark yellowish or dark green colour but i didnt found any black or brown mud.
I need ur help please guide me if i am using wrong HCL as it is mentioned HCL 37% infusion, on the bottle.
I am losing money in it.
I shall be greatfull if u can share ur whatsapp number with me so i can send u videos of my present expriment situations.
Regards,
Ahsan,
+971504545062.
And our next lesson is entitled "How to make meth with the used chemicals from stripping gold."
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Well Sir,, Its just Great to Say that your method is a clear example of WASTE to WEALTH, I am Impressed - GOOD and hope people benefit from ithis good clear explanation of video.
Chemistry, you just got more interesting :)
I wonder where you go with all that chemical waste.
Just into the sky and down the drain, there's not much of it and there's nothing harmful.
Noctis Occulta well in germany you aren't even allowed to wash your car on your property.
***** just neutralize it with base and make water
***** thats why you nutralize it
Just chuck it in the pool.
I've seen videos on YT of people stripping off the gold-plated fingers by simply applying heat and pressure. That way you have a lot less non-gold material to remove. PCBs and components may have gold on them elsewhere, but the gold content is really small and/or hard to extract.
gREAT VIDEO!! Love the narrator! I would say that is 3 grams?
Hi Moose Lee again, I have got 600 fingers, how much muriatic acid and peroxide would you suggest for this amount, I also have 25 cell phone boards and can I you this process as well.
Just enough to cover them really. THe solution can hold about 2lbs of copper and nickel per gallon and there is very little copper in those fingers. As for the peroxide, one part 3% peroxide to 4 parts HCL 31.45 % should do the trick. I would however, really recommend the air bubbler system. As for the cell boards, if they are clean they can be processed this same way.
Thanks Moose
Omg. I think youd earn that money quicker woking at mcd's
Ummm it's a hobby! A hobby that actually yields mans most coveted commodity since the dawn of civilization! Come home from work check it out strain it,go in 4 dinner go to work on Sunday got some pure gold,instead of a baseball,a beer,fantasy football you got a collage fund in 20yrs. Only a fool mocks gold,you're a fool,sad.
+Sketti Boi yes, but working there he'd have to deal with all those dangerous chemicals. here, he can wear a mask
McDonald=fiat currency
gold=money
Oh, the dollar is NOT money....
+eblasphamy1 if it's a hobby, it's an interesting--albeit expensive, & pretty health hazardous one.
sorry, but the rest of us non-autistic folk would prefer to sit down/relax, go out somewhere, & enjoy LIFE after a full time week at a job that makes us 100 times that money, in less than half the time & effort.
@@funktronix lol that you brought autism into this shows how autistic you are. Most normal people don't know an autist from their anus.
I have a question about your process. I see that you filter the gold/copper chloride solution, then dilute both in aqua regia. You then filter the mixture to obtain the aqua regia with the dissolved gold. My question is this: How can you filter this solution using a filter that can dissolve in aqua regia? Or is this rendered negligible with the following precipitation of the gold/filtering step?
Totally fake... Its all CGI and in the end what looks like a small piece of gold nugget is really a lump of earwax photoshopped to look like a gold nugget.
Its a classic tank and spank.
This is REAL! REAL!
Did you even try this ? No.
Guys i was joking omg... Ofc its not fake lol... I'M fake hahaha.
Wesam Riyad Al Qadi
way to troll those who dont know chemistry. . . lol what am I saying, I would so do what you just did. messing with people who dont know stuff is fun
I appreciate the Alienware logo. I was like, "Yeah, of course you'd like to think it's fake. You've got a $3,000 computer." I do, too, actually. :P
followed the instructions but ended up with bitcoin
hey buddy
Holding hard my bitcoin
is it economically viable? I mean, all those chemicals and price of the "fingers" - is the result worth it's cost?
You shouldve started by saying "Hi, my names Jesse Ventura"
Good one! But I thought he sounded exactly like the big guy from Penn and Teller.
Danny Mcnamara
my thoughts exactly
Danny Mcnamara
Is this your card?
He got $100 dollars of gold......Electrical cost from process $180.
+7Earthsky
Plus the cost of the chemicals... Plus the glassware/tubing... plus the bubbler... plus the hot plate... plus whatever he spent to buy the old computer hardware.
profit XD
This is pretty much why places that collect electronic stuff for reclaiming precious metals will take as much as they can get their hands on. There are several places in Massachusetts that process it in bulk, enough to fit one or two flatbed trucks.
On the other hand, once the initial investment has been made, it will begin to pay for itself, if you're in the habit of collecting that much old gear.
+chris anders (chris anders seeds) dude if you study to be an electrician, they teach you how to do it, it involves math, lots of it
+chris anders (chris anders seeds) yep, Im currently studying electricity, but ive never had the change to fully study how to estimate the cost of electricity
If I was still teaching science, I would do this as a class demonstration. Although the yield may be quite low, it does demonstrate a useful reaction.
he sounds a bit like pen Gillette of pen an teller fame
michaelCohenlyingPOS I'm sure pen doesn't need the MUNY but saw a vid of his and he looked I'll and getting older .
+Davy Desykes it also sounds like the narrator for the show how it's made
Joshua Hill hi in the last week I've heard 3 DIFFRENT guys do how's it made him from scrapheap and one from 2005 there really getting there moneys worth out of there old film stock I'm into that extreme engineering a bit same channel but I watch a shed load of TV way too much at times
+Davy Desykes Aww damn, Im the only one that hears the dog from "Up" when this guys talking ?
Davy Desykes lmfaoooo you're so rite
This guy would probably make a killer Alex Jones impersonation.
You make it sound so easy and simple...But you fail to mention where do you get all those boards ?? Where do you get the different acids ?? and copper solution ???/
sorry, im looking for a quicker, get rich quick scheme .................
buy bitcoin in December 2017 and sell in January 2018. Divide your capital by 5.
How much gold was recovered? Not enough.
its better than nothing
michael peterson You spend more money than get from this proces..
ZXTMA Smith
ZXTMA Smith 4 to 5 grams @ $35-40/gram = pretty good money for what $12 worth of chemicals and maybe $25 worth of equipment. NICE! but accumulating enough boards and connectors to salvage that amount of gold will take a long time. he showed approx 30 computers worth of fingers (~4 per computer)
Nope not worth it, the amount of time you spend getting a tiny bit of gold out of it which isn't worth enough for the labor involved.
You will make more money just working at a job than getting gold out this way. Unless you have a giant version of this where you can get a lot of gold out, in which case you will have to spend a ton of money to make this a viable thing.
i once found a solid piece of pure gold in a riverbed just like that. sold if for almost 80€.
recovering/working with gold rly makes one happy im tellin ya =)
"How its made" voice?! Is that you?!?!
can't you just scratch the gold off the fingers with a sharp knife instead?
you should part 1, part 2 and so on because i would like to see the next step but i don't know what video is next! Thanks
2 grams max. how much does hcl cost?
you can go to lowes or walmart and pick up a gallon of Muriatic Acid for 6 to 8 bucks .
Crazy. Thanks for info.
What about the rule pour acid into water but not the reverse? I thought I learned that in highschool.
Oh 2.3 gram gold dore/drop my guess.
It is no problem to add water to acid. Some time ago you used to add water to car batteries. But now they are maintenance free.
dodgedaytona25 He's just talking about splashing and cautious teachers, I'm sure. Whatever liquid is being poured will travel to the bottom of whatever container it is being poured into--the liquid already in the container will splash out. If acid is already present and water is being poured too fast or from too high, the acid will splash out and possibly cause damage to self or property.
Ok. I see.
Christopher Pinterich Actually, he's talking about pouring concentrated acids into water. Strictly speaking, only denser-than-water liquids would travel to the bottom of a container filled with water. If you poured certain alcohols into water (or oil, for that matter), they would float, not sink.
The height from which you pour is definitely a variable, but If you're adding H2SO4 into a large volume of water, it isn't all that bad as the reaction is contained by the large volume of water- water isn't as dense, so acid, when poured into water sinks instantly, and the reaction occurs closer to the bottom of a beaker or container.
However, if you do it the other way round, i.e. pour water into a large volume of conc. H2SO4, you instantly get a highly volatile reaction as the H2SO4 vigorously reacts with ALL the water, nearly instantly. Moreover, since the water isn't as dense, the reaction occurs mostly at the top, causing the reaction to fizzle, splash out etc.
mainly...was the whole process worth the time, labor, and materials used for this tiny recovery?
I'd guess you got around 0.1 gram of gold?
(BTW, will you be making the average of the guesses? That'd be interesting to compare to the actual value, with enough guesses.)
Funny because all the the equipment and acids that you bought is worth way more than the gold you recovered
The equipment, yes. The acid is reusable to a limited degree. Even if you broke even, is it worth your time in collecting all of the gold plating? -- probably not. Still is interesting.
Is it very complicated and/or expensive (minus the price of the gold) to turn small, powder like flakes of gold, like the ones produced here in the video, into gold-leaf, as in the paper sheets of gold people use for art and crafts?
i use 3 ram 16 gb and gtx titan +980 + 3 ram 2 gb = i win 2 gram of gold and i lose 2500 dollar
+gamo doo profits my man
+Zachary Angel dollar is collapsing? in what world?
not sure if Golds going to be as useful as food, but yes people will use it and the Dollar is the last economic currency to go, other countries have already claimed bankruptcy. America has done a good job in forcing the collapse to happen much faster by going into debt more and more and its as if they want it to happen.The Last 30 years the Just kept adding onto the Trillions, where are they spending that money? I think in underground Bunkers and bases. Besides the secret space programs. Conspiracy, most likely The E.U. is behind it in my opinion.
+David Chase oh no the government is taking the American taxes and giving it to the aliens! I find these kind of conspiracy theories to be really retarded. anyone who believes them is just as retarded
These conspiracy theorists are nuts but they do have a point to be worried about the dollar collapsing, if anything does it it's going to be the too big to fail banks, bigger than in 2008, doing all the shady shit with sub-prime lending again.
what if i use my nose as a respirator
That is a fine idea good sir.
What an excellent, clearly understandable video. Thank you, Sir!
6 grams is 1/5th ounce. gold is 1236 dollars per ounce this makes it about $247.50. From this we have to figure what you have paid for the starting, our time is worth and the materials. Figure as a guess $100 dollars. This means that after a week you have made about $150.00 and possibly less. This may pay on a larger scale.
This would definitely pay on a larger scale. However, a trip to Lagos is too expensive anyway.
***** Hi, it depends if you use a metric ounce of 30g per ounce or a Troy ounce (29.95g) , which is quite close. If the daily price is $1236 x 6g/30g =$247.20. or 5 divided into 1236. Check this by multipying $247.2 times 5 to get the original starting figure. Best,
Nick
if you do it on the side its a nice bit of extra money fora small hobby.
did you now people in some third world countries do this as their only source of income?
they go to dump(yah america sends alot of trash to third world countries) to get any computer parts to do this with
beats sitting around watching tv
Nicholas Sceusa Actually, a metric ounce is 25 grams it's not widely used. The most common ounces are AVDP or "standard" ounce which is 28.3 grams, and the troy ounce, which is what gold is measured in on the stock exchange @ 31.1 grams per ounce. So, if you were wanting to know the price of gold per gram, you would divide the current bid price ($1322.30 today) by 31.1 to get the price per gram. If you factor in the cost of all the materials used in this process, including electricity to run the air pump, heat plate etc. it's virtually impossible to make money from gold plated components, even if you get the components free.
This is really impressive. But counting the price of materials used for this (acid and stuff) and the value of your time, is it worth the price in gold you get in the long run?
never add water to acid.
A/w root beer for a good reminder Always acid into water . not water into acid , the metals in water could cause a reaction .
How much would that amount of gold even be worth??
About 62 dollars
nice
yea with this economy even getting that much can help most people.
Rlt_Valeius
about 50$...maybe
Is this finished product 24k gold? ie colloidal gold and the liquid with all the dissolved gold is it alkaline or acidic, would it burn your skin, very interested in this
2.5grams
Thank you very much for the prompt response and the info. Very informative.
I've been working as a mechanic for over 45 yrs and you've helped see that I've been wasting a lot of scrap instead of stripping it down.
Ford starter solenoids have a lot of copper in them, but over the years, I just tossed 'em when they went bad.
I used to sell old starters and alternators to rebuilder's, but it would seem no one rebuilds them anymore.
GM starters are pretty easy to remove all the copper form the armature, and I just figured out how to do it on Fords.
I look forward to learning more from you and if you ever have a need for any help on your vehicle and I can help you out, please do not hesitate to ask.
Shal' aam Aleichem
AAPiY
Mike
Mike Paul That's awesome! Glad I could be of help to you. I have been wanting to make a video on scrapping a starter and an alternator but I do not come across car parts too often. Are you able to make a video of you taking a starter apart? I would love to see it! Thanks!
Mike Paul i work for the largest starter/alternator manufacturer in the world. I can tell you exactly where all the copper is and how to get it out easily without damaging it.
every small bit helps it's a great hobby we dutch say there is money everywhere you just need to know where too look
Haha those claiming to be 40s something year vets in the field they claim or working at a huge company seems pretty random and in fact pretty bullshitty.
ill be honest.. I don't see myself making a profit by doing this on any scale at all.
Can't knock it for a hobby. It's a great method. I don't always take as many steps as this, i just use muriatic acid and hydrogen peroxide and it doesn't take me more then a couple of days each batch.
What do you do as the next step? Muriatic and bleach to dissolve gold into solution?
Holy shit that real gold? You can try making an even bigger batch to get more gold and pawn that for a couple hundred. My guess for that piece of gold is about 3oz
well think about the cost of all the materials and the oppurunity cost he wastes by spending hours with this process... not worth it for a tiny bit of gold worth around $60
justinjj149
first off, calm down u dont need to attack me. Second, how often do you think people need to recycle electronic scrap?
lol
Random dude lol 3oz not quite maybe 2grams
Did you pee into that glove before you put it on?
yes
i suppose so
+ㅤㅤㅤ1 gram of gold per 500 grams of goldfingers?ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
Is it possible to just use some tools to pull the gold off of the "fingers" instead of using acid? I mean it would take a lot longer but is it possible? Or is the gold coverered by copper aswell? Sorry don't know much about this :P
I was watching porn. How the hell I ended up watching gold extraction vid?
it seemms you had a free hand
arrgh garry and two screens! lol!
Breaking bad Gold edition XD
Great video, I'm planning to attempt this myself but want to be as safe as possible(within my spending limit). I lack a fume hood and bought a 3M tekk mask pro multi-purpose with cartridges that say the protect from certain organic vapors, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide or hydrogen fluoride or hydrogen sulfide and particles. Would this be sufficient to use if process is done outside? Was considering maybe a SCBA but wouldn't know where to start.
Also, what containers would be good for storing/transporting the waste acid to turn in for proper disposal? Any info greatly appreciated.
5:50 what she said.
Wooow ... I went asking for the chemicals ...police thought I was a supporter of PMOI and Isis .... and that was before everyone asked why I wanted 10,000 old computers
Omg that is friggin hilarious!!!! :-D
I am a gold miner and my question is. I save all my black sand and heavies after I reclaim all my gold but have always wondered if the black sand and fines I have left over have any microscopic amounts of gold in it to recover still or if it's just garbage at that point.
Using alchemy to create gold. Of if the chemist of years ago could see us now.
+The Great Gyrofluff This has nothing to do with creating gold. This is simply extracting gold from other metals. Chemists have known this for dozens of years.
Malthe Hansen Shhh, in the eyes of magical Alchemy it is creating gold. Get your science out of here.
+Malthe Hansen You know there is no iron involved in this right? iron isn't some generic term, it's a fucking element
PanicGiraffe He probably meant either metals or Ions. You're not exactly perfect in your own spelling you know. : P
The Great Gyrofluff I know what he meant, but if you think those are interchangeable you're probably an idiot.
You sound like Stanly from Gravity Falls
+BestofVideos he does tho. well kinda