[geeks] gold recovery from certain motherboards?

[Mike Hebel]

A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Patrick Giagnocavo
> I have a few motherboards from old workstations that seem to have more
> than the usual amount of gold on them; traces are gold, not just the
> contacts.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions as to how to easily:
>
> 1) determine if the gold is worth recovering
>
> 2) remove the gold for purposes of selling it
>
> I am told that some recyclers have a big smelter, and the circuit boards
> are dumped in by the 50-gallon barrel load, then the gold is paid for
> after the smelting operation is done. However I do not have that
> quantity of boards.
>
> Ideas, thoughts, experience all welcome.

The dark side of the force that is...

Motherboards lead you to cpus,
CPUs lead you to Vaxen,
Gold stealing Vaxen leads you to suffering.

I fear much motherboards in you...
-- 
Mike

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
		-- Dr. Who