How To Recover Gold From Computer Scrap with Household Chemicals
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Computer scrap has an undeterminable amount of gold. This enables sellers to charge, and get, from two to ten times what the scrap is worth in terms of the amount of gold that it contains. This video shows that it's not easy to get the gold and that the amount of gold yielded is very low. Now you have a place to look BEFORE you spend your hard-earned money on this kind of over-priced scrap.
Well people, its called "How to extract gold", not "How to get rich" from extracting gold.
Absolutely loved the chemical processes. Really fun to watch. And especially all the time and effort it took to do this.
"How to get rich from a YT video about how to extract gold."
Cudos! First video I watched and it's fascinating, to say the least.
@@greyspot270 First video you ever watched on YT?
rich you get if you buy alot and then let a refinery do the job since they not only dont use chemicals but they get stuff done with alot less labour involved ;) nobody in its sane mind would try to process gold from e scrap himself if they want to turn a profit, exept you build a factory for 6-10m usd
@Johnathan Saegal bleach from any grocery store, hydrochloric/muriatic acid from any hardware store, hydrogen peroxide from grocery store/drugstore, sodium metabisulfate stump remover from Home Depot and also sold at home brewing stores, coffee filters and pickle/canning jars… if you -really- think this requires a chemistry lab and/or special order chemicals, this is sooo not the hobby for you.
I been studying the refining system a lot. Today , you have really made it simple as compared to those other fancy systems. I can now process all my pins and fingers. Thank you deeply.
The real gold is what he’s extracting from millions of you tube views. Nice video; very interesting 😀
@ABC 123 - He said why; Nice video, very interesting -
hey dude, youtube is free only the internet service is not free but has many educational pieces. just watch your cowboy and Indian black and white show.
weird thing is youtube servers rely on these kind of golden plated server components!
They don't make that much for the efforts they put into it, Give him a break.
He's sharing something that can make us some money too.
Ha ha good one!
It's incredibly interesting to see the chemistry behind this. I'm lucky enough to mine it from streams so it's amazing to see people mining it out of urban environments.
I've watched your videos before. Man! If I only knew a 10th of what you fellas know, I'd be doing alright!
I've been watching your videos for over a year and keeping up to date with your facebook. Never thought I'd see you out in the wild like this! Haha
Went to Colorado once, South Fork area. Prospected for days with not a single speck of gold. I guess you have to venture extremely far off the beaten path. It was rather disappointing but nice to know I have a box of old computer junk I can 100% refine gold from.
Hello vo-gus from 3 years ago
DUDE HATS OFF TO YA THE WHOLE PROCESS WAS INTRESTING THANK YOU
Please remember that RECOVERY and REFINING are two totally different processes. With escrap, and with many other forms of gold scrap, the gold must first be RECOVERED from the scrap before it can be REFINED to high purity gold. In this video, RECOVERY is the process of separating the gold from the circuit card material that the gold foils cling to. I used hydrochloric acid and hydrogen peroxide with an aquarium bubbler to RECOVER the gold foils so that those foils could be REFINED in later steps. After the gold foils were lifted from the circuit card fingers by the action of the the air bubbling through the hydrochloric acid and over-the-counter 3% hydrogen peroxide, I collected all the foils in coffee filters - at this point the RECOVERY process is complete. Now I proceed to the REFINING of the RECOVERED gold foils. REFINING is the process of 1) dissolving the gold foils 2) filtering out insoluble material 3) then reconstituting the gold out of solution with a chemical precipitant, in this video I used sodium metabisulfite. Sodium metabisulfite, when mixed with the chloroauric acid (dissolved gold) produces sulfur dioxide gas. The gold atoms in the chloroauric acid have an affinity for the sulfur atoms in the gas and they begin to cling to the sulfur atoms, but they don't bond chemically. At some point the gold gets too heavy and falls (precipitates) out of solution. When this happens then the REFINING process is complete. RECOVERY and REFINING are two totally different processes.
+sreetips did you buy the trimmed fingers?
YES, it would have taken me several years and one thousand scrap computers to accumulate that many trimmed fingers. I paid $417 for five pounds of trimmed fingers, that's $83 per pound. I bought those over-priced fingers to make this and other videos, not to make a profit. Sellers on eBay use the perpetual myth that there is a half ounce of pure gold in every scrap PC to charge, and get, anywhere from two to ten times more than the fingers are worth in terms of the amount of gold that the scrap actually contains. People just keep bidding the price of the scrap higher and higher. The persistence of this myth is astonishing.
+sreetips all that hard work for that little of gold? wow man im sorry but i dont have the patients for that
I hear you. Refining is NOT for everyone. It's my hobby and I love doing it and then sharing what I have learned.
yea i get ya. lol i just wish u could make more than just that little bead tho
Regardless of the negative comments I found this vid to be quite interesting. Thanks.
It is interesting but the effort for little quantity of gold......
I don't understand why somebody would write a negative comment. I love his videos!
why don't you use a small grinder and grind off the gold into your beaker and then use your chemicals to recover the gold. i know it would take more physical labor, but it would take a whole lot les volumes of the expensive chemicals you using and i believe a way lot less time soaking and bubbling away in the jar?????
kharkhov I agree
Call this a negative comment if you like but I think there was more time money and everything else that goes along with this video a waste of time and money. As well as your comment about this video as well.
moral of the story: always be the guy selling the magic beans
Will Hannah exactly. The ones who made the most money off the gold rush were the ones selling supplies to the prospectors.
Or you could earn your money and have a little pride.
@@thomasbrandon8029 im sorry pride doesnt pay my rent
Peasant
@@walkermallory6957 Kulaks were peasants and they were considered rich.
It was fun to watch, I really like that you didn't put an audio file in the background.
No kidding can actually focus on what's going on.
Something about his fan running is soothing...
Fun looked really boring ,what happens if u forget 1 of those steps????
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Half way into the video , my curios mind just wants to know what his voice sounds like.. and is he not using his voice cause it's horrible and would district from the video content? Or is it that his voice is so sexy and would distract from the content?
props for including the info for disposing of the waste in a responsible manner .
Why?
@@weatherphobia because he is responsible
While the extracted gold might not be worth all of the trouble extracting it, I totally enjoyed the video and found it very informative and now I feel like getting the chemistry set out. The best thing is NO MERCURY was used! Great Job!!
You reminded of Walter White. Good job man. You've got patience.
That was fun to watch, but I was surprised there was no recap to see if he made money. From what I can tell he did not.
He bought 5 pounds (2262 grams ) of trimmed material for $417.
At the time he purchased the 5 pounds, gold was $1,130 or $40 a gram.
He ran 500 grams of fingers as a test, or 22% of his material.
22% of his $417 investment was $92, so to make money on his test he needed to make more than $92, not including time and chemicals.
He yielded 1 gram of gold at $40, and spent $92 for the “fingers”, so he lost $52.
The whole 5 pounds of "fingers", assuming the same yield, would yield 4.52 grams of gold or $181; a total loss of $236.
Correct, you can not make a profit unless you can get the scrap for free or for very little cost. I only did this to make the video, not to make a profit.
I found you video very interesting, this is something I wouldn't even had guessed could be done! I read a number of comments, and there seemed to be confusion as to the financial results. I thought I would post a (hopefully) clear explanation of the profit or loss. Anyway, thanks for a great video, I found it very interesting!
Eric Wild
Eric Wild rocks and kudos on Holden Mcgroine thought, changed my perspective on the matter.
Exactly what i was thinking but props to the poster for showing us this incredible process.
Excellent video. Content very nicely organized and presented. Negative comments by people not paying attention to the information given at the beginning of the video, i.e. (a) safety precautions (b) assessing whether the process would realistically be a financial success (c) etc. Those paying attention from the beginning of the video gained some very important educational information and knowledge and wisdom.
Even those who didn't pay attention and gave negative comments learned the truth about how much gold (not much) this type of over priced scrap has in it.
Yes, the presentation of the process is very interesting for anyone interested in chemistry. And I appreciate that you describe both the extraction/recovery process, and the process of refining the gold.
If this video can give gold-diggers a realistic picture of both the process AND of the financial realities, you have accomplished your mission :)
@@sreetips I hope 5.6M views pays enough to recoup the $70 you lost making this video, saathi. It was informative. Solidarity.
Traditional European 70 he lost way more than that
@@Jordan-sv3pu Please explain before I start insulting you.
Thank you for showing me that method of gold recovery from electronic scrap. Not only did I learn a new chemical process, but also that I should stick to my day job! Very nice video.
I never liked chemistry back in school but you got me hooked. Fascinating to see a wizard going back and fro between solid and liquid state. Great job!
Welcome!
Hes TH-cam's #1 BEST REFINER ! The knowledge he shares could very well be kept secret to himself, yet he takes the time to teach US ONES WHO WANT to learn this underrated life skill. Not only are you an AMAZING and skilled chemist and refiner, YOU ARE AN AMAZING TEACHER and holder of these ancient old alchemical secrets🤳👨🔬👑 You introduced me to the art of refining and i am really thankful❤
I am studying to be a jewler..been 2 years now. But this is a skill i am soo attracted to..I LOVE TO WATCH THE PROCESS !! I LOVE WHAT COMES AT THE END ! A GLOWING GOLDEN ORB OF BEAUTY. I tip my hat to you sir 🙌🏻 You have amazed me OVER & OVER AGAIN with your level of skill and have taught me wonders !! Such skills will help me tons as i work in Gold and silver and always have to deal with contaminated gold/silver waste- but with this skill-i can save a lot of money and being a student- IT WILL HELP ME SOO MUCH..
THANK YOU SREETIPS !! I hope to one day meet you ! I have so many questions i would love to ask.
With that said - I wish you a great afternoon and a productive day. Blessings from CANADA
-Jonathan-
If you take nothing else away from this . If this was something you though you would be interested in doing but you didn't know how, well know you know and you have to decide if it's worth the time and money. Thanks for doing all the hard work so I can forget my get rich quick scheme.
IKR I've always wanted to do this but now I know why more don't you can't really make any money unless you have a repair shop and people donate their computers when it's not practical to fix them. I've donated a couple to a computer repair shop. They probably do this or sell to others to try.
Yep, definitely can't make money doing this. Most would make more money off of one broken down tower with all the components in-tact vs doing something like this. Even shops would benefit more from fixing up or at least scrapping what components work and selling those vs going through this unless it was a popular site for donations but even then it probably wouldn't be enough to be worthwhile.
I'd say this would really only work if you owned an electronic waste center which would be the ones who would actually benefit from it vs anyone else. Everybody else would either break even, lose money or would never have enough to scrap for it to be worthwhile compared to just selling as is or salvaging.
Hmm. He started with 500 grams (1.1 pounds) of fingers. That gold bead at 1 gram is worth $41.78 at today’s price...the ounce getting almost $1300...which was more than what it was when he recorded. Costs of chemicals and propane eat into that $41.78 before you even consider what he paid for the circuit boards to yield that 500 grams of fingers. And then there’s the time trimming the fingers off boards before you even count his time working the chemical, filtering and smelting processes. I think he may ave lost money even if he only counted his time as worth $10\hour. There’s a lot of time lost setting things up, moving things around, just coming back from time to time to check on things. He certainly incurred a loss compared to what he would have earned by simply spending that same amount of time on the clock at a traditional job. I’m not hating on you OP, because education and experimentation are important. But I don’t see this being worth anyone’s time unless you could process in huge batches and eliminate the costs of procuring the fingers.
@@rodarywindsorcleveland8506 lmao
@@rodarywindsorcleveland8506 you make it sound easy to be able to sell parts. As someone who's in the business believe me, it's not. A lot of things from a used vehicle you dont sell. You dont buy a used clutch. Lol. Or brakes or MANY other components
Seems like the best money to be made is collecting, cutting and selling the fingers.
I agree, they currently sell for about 2 to 3 times more than they are worth in eBay. I included the cost/yield data to illustrate this fact; computer scrap is way over priced, yet people continue to pay. I'm hoping that this video (and others that I have made) will help to bring the cost of the scrap down to earth. When people see how little the scrap actually yields then they will be less inclined to paying the inflated prices for the scrap - hopefully.
The best money to be made is the platform such as eBay that allows him to sell the fingers.
I just wanted to add to the newer viewers that this video is NOT about making money by getting gold in this manner. He is just showing the process that can be used. He is already aware that it cost more to scavange the gold by this method with the current price of gold! Add in the cost of the chemicals, equipment and what the trimmed fingers costs you and your return is less then $50. So please stop posting the same response/question that has been posted and answered several times. I guess some people just don't listen or somehow miss the lesson in chemistry he was giving. He has repeatedly stated that he didn't do this for profit. Great video and I may just try it for the heck of it. Yes, I have that much free time on my hands. LOL. Thanks... :)
Thanks Robert. I included the cost data in the video to show that there was no profit. I thought that it would be self evident.
Doesn't help that people are generally stupid
so thats YOUR take on it...stop being the comment police snowflake douchebag
so what was the point .a waste off time and effort .i say.
what !he wouldnt have this set up and all the shit that is needed if he wasnt doing this for real
I’d like to point out that his scale that he uses says “Gold Series”
Boron kills creeping charlie
seems like a huge load of time, energy, and effort, for just a couple of grams of gold.
@@billgates2581 That was only one gram.
Just goes to show: getting pure gold is never quick and easy. That’s why it’s so expensive.
That guy takes a profit not from gold but from youtube :)
a whole $.005 usd from ads lol
daft nord 3.8 million views x $0.00333 per view = $12,654.
Just FYI, after the adpocolypse TH-cam pays on average $3.33 per 1000 views.
Just based on the foil separation alone that is $1.67 per hour. That's time alone for that part of the process and doesn't include chemicals or the rest of the process and time. Add the rest of the process I don't see how this is worth the time and money. Cool to watch tho...
Do think about that scaling up is a relatively simple task... There are Businesses that do nothing else than this, though a different environment obviously.
why not !!!
Well that looks like a very expensive gram of gold there. However, if you buy the chemicals wholesale, and get the electronics for free, then you really have a system for making money there. You told another commenter that basically the scrap is worth more and that this refining process just isn't worth it. However, I can see by your setup that you are profiteering from this venture. You have a complete refining system going always on this. Your video is based on your paying almost a $1/g for scrap. There are electronics manufacturing companies that would pay you to pick their scrap boards up. They would yeild hundreds of LB/week. That would turn things around drastically.
- Buy chemicals wholesale.
- Find a large electronics manufacturing company to get paid for picking up their scrap boards. Charge for pickup by the LB.
- Have a place to refine.
= Profit all the way to the bank.
Oh, I also forgot to mention that if you are getting populated boards, then the components also have gold and silver elements in them. Additionally, those boards you are getting also have gold weaved in layers within the board from one circuit the next. You might even find a processor with 1/2 oz of gold in them alone.
this this right here
You are not going to find a processor with 1/2 ounce of gold. Given the average gold content% of 0.2%, the processor would weigh in the neighborhood of 15lbs...would make for a rather hefty laptop. And it would be worth well over $500 per chip.
You may find one with 1/2 gram of gold though. But the highest average yield I have heard of is 0.3g per CPU for Pentium Pro models (typical yield, some claim they contain up to 1g/CPU).
But you are right in the at free or paid-to-haul scrap and bulk pricing for chemicals is a worthy business model.
No processor has 1/2 ozt Gold in it. I paid $280 for the NEW laptop which I am using. One half ounce of Gold is worth $581.05 as of this post....more than twice the cost of my machine.
Nobody will remain in business long doing that. Companies are NOT the Welfare Department. They produce and sell to make a profit. Otherwise they close their doors and layoff their employees.
Come on...Use your common sense.
He said he makes money refining scrap jewelry. eScrap is LOW YIELD and costly to recover and refine.
I buy Scrap Computers...for $1 each.
I buy scrap Cell Phones for 20 cents apiece. One thousand of those will yield ONE OUNCE. I have about 650 at this point with 250 shredded.
24kGoldenRocket Why would you assume I was talking about 1/2oz being in a cheap consumer laptop? I said electronics company. I wasn't talking about Best Buy. If you are paying for old scrap computers or old cell phones then you don't have even the foggiest of ideas of what I was referring to. I'm damn sure not going to try to explain the process to you any better than I already have. Additionally, I'm sure the guy also makes a considerable profit from the scrap in general. Just wanted to say don't let him fool you in thinking that he is not making any money for the gold and silver. I don't know what his overhead is ie: logistics, payroll, insurance, but he's still in the black. Electronics companies aren't stupid either. They know what their scrap is worth. They don't pay someone much to haul off and sometimes they pay nothing to the scrap guys to haul off. A lot of companies desolder the 1/2oz processors and send them back to the manufacturer for credit on the next build. You're thinking too small time. No wonder you're not making money.
+blkcandywarez - This company - www.digitalsignalcorp.com/
Truly an incredible teaching tool and teacher. The myth and your motivation aside, I found the roadtrip mesmerizing. My thanks!
And this very video will forever remind me that chemistry is NOT for the impatient haha very nice!
You're a regular Walter White....
GsP1979
I Was Thinking The same Thing!!!! 😂😂
GsP1979, that's what I kept thinking the whole time I was watching!
Jessie- hand me that Erlenmeyer flask!
Forgive me if my math is off, but i don't see how this works out.
- You paid $417 for 5 pounds of scrap.
- 5 pounds = 4.536 x 500 grams
- Each 500 grams scrap = 1 gram gold
- This means the recovery will be ~4.536 grams
With the gold price upon purchase of $1130 per ounce, or $36 per gram, your $417 purchase of scrap netted $163.30 in gold.
So what am I missing? I must have gotten something wrong while trying to make sense of it. Sorry, but I guess I need to be led down the path by hand...
No, you missed nothing. I wasn't trying to make money from the gold I recovered. I was trying to make money from the video.
Best reply ever
Right now you have 1.326 Million hits. How much did you make? Will you tell us?
If he has a proper youtube partner, a youtuber generally makes around 1000usd per 1million views. Very very generally speaking.
Ooowwww......BURN!!!!!! Best business lesson ever!!! Glad I took the time to watch.
You are a Amazing, I would have fun everyday doing that if I could. I love science, and smithing. Both together as one that I would like to do. Great work I love it.
I use to pull the old Intel CPU's and sell them on Ebay about 100 at a time because they had quite a bit of gold but the newer ones not so much, so I quit doing it more than 10 years ago. I always wondered how they recovered it but I think they were doing a larger scale - as in 50+ gallon tanks.
I was excited for awhile watching this, thinking oh maybe I can start recycling again since I work on computers for a living, but then was disappointed that the yield was so small. Obviously the technique needs to be refined and scaled up to be profitable - not something you can really do in your attached garage. Even 1-2k a day would be okay for one guy, but any less than that you're just spinning you wheels. Never the less I enjoyed the video.
Nice m8
they where smelting it since chemical process is a waste of money ;) no large scale refiner use acids - you just smelt it, use a carrier metal and catch all gold inside it, zero need to waste money on chemicals - just grind it and add 1 ton at a time in the furnace and process it
Wow,very cool.it only took 3-4 years to find and watch your video on how to do this correctly!
Marsden Balaska 310
Johann Moser.. Don't you just hate it when people don't LISTEN to the commentator. This is a demonstration on how to get the gold from computer cards and nothing more, but most are thinking this is some great way to get rich. It's not a get rich scheme, and in fact at current gold prices you would lose money. I think he makes this very clear in his video. BTW, Thanks to sreetips (the poster of this video) for being honest and saying he is trying to make money by getting views to this video, not by selling something. If nothing else it's intreesting and perhaps someone knows of products that contain more gold the PCs and would make this profitable, but I know of no other consumer product that uses as much gold as PCs besides art work or jewlery which are already way over priced!! Thanks... :)
If your just collecting gold its cheaper to go buy a gold coin... This is pointless
Robert S. Yes a How To.
or if you have good relations, effective resources and so on... Recovering minerals from 'waste' can be profitable if managed well, although not extremely.
PLEASE, PARDON MY SPELLING I MAY BE FRENCH BUT AT LEAST I`M TRYING . ... catillic converters from exsaust systemes under cars . which pays off steeling them from under buses or tractor trailer vehicles because its a black market shabang.... and always have trouble with that where huge amount of buses are parked ... IT`S CRAZY ... to me,, i think its too much of a long process...
have a good one
kind regards . MOON...
I wish I had some of the shit your using
Great job. Very educational and great presentation. If I would of had teachers like you when I was in school, chances are good I would have understood chemistry more. Thanks for taking the time to make such an excellent video.
at a gram its worth approximitly 41 dollars. Probably at a loss with the time effort and materials but a cool video none the less.
He only used 500 grams of trimmed fingers. And the whole lot is like 6 or 7 pounds. He got much more gold than this, he only showed us one batch.
Going only on what was shown in this video, he showed ~2270g of fingers for about $500. Assuming 1g gold per 500g, that's roughly 4.25g of gold, at 3-year average price per gram of $50 = $212 return. This video shows an investment loss of over $280, before adding cost of materials.
@@cbcinfla But if you collect the from free scrap then you win. Hes just showing how to process like he said in the begining.
I quite enjoyed this video. Not only is the subject interesting, but many of the comments are amusingly foolish.
There is value here; value in the immediately-useful sense of YT revenue, and value in the long-term sense of recycling. Gold is not only pretty, it is fantastically useful. Many medical uses for gold exist, which some people do not know. There is no reason to waste any of it. Regardless of small-scale costs for this experiment, clearly the process itself is straightforward and effective.
Only time enough in this life to accomplish a certain number of things and this will not be one of them. I prefer working to make money rather than pay to work. '
you can buy a 1 gram 9999 gold Canadian coin for $72.00.... but I guess that would ruin all the fun science stuff! hehehe
the price of gold is $43.00 a gram US right now.
So hilarious how long I just spent adding up the total loss:D I suppose if the dollar crashes, you have millions of these fingers laying around, and electricity still...
this adds up to my loss of time spent watching this waste of money and time
A very interesting video which confirms that extracting gold from computer wastes is best left to professionals.
Thank you
Great! Now I'm stuck thinking where i can procure a railcar full of clean processed finger boards along with tanker cars of peroxide and hydrochloric acid.
lol
all that for around $40 of gold...
yes a waste of energy, heat, chemicals, etc.. non counting the contamination!! sorry my english but is true!
that yield is not even 14k, 14 Karat $23.57/gram
Ronnie Paul
Ronnie Paul
$40 can feed me for a week, don't know about you but $40 for fifteen minutes of work is worth it in my neck of the woods..... justsaying
Maybe, better just to buy a metal detector and head to the beach!
Much healthier than breathing in acids!
***** Naaa! Too much risk, I think!
Snake bites, collapse etc...
My life worth more!
szaki I would assume he's wearing some respiratory safety device such as a gas mask or respirator that is capable of filtering out poisonous gases. At least I hope. But still I thought it was pretty cool.
szaki what do you do with all the waste chemicals?
szaki Hell yea dude! Plus it’s more entertaining too in my opinion anyways.
peter huffman He doesn’t need to have a respiratory mask on as he clearly had a hood with ventilation sucking out all the toxic air from the experiment, however he should have had a lab coat on and could have used acetone to remove the excess filters from the Gold instead of adding additional HCl. But great work showing the steps and thoroughly explaining everything!
This video was very educational and informative. Thank you for taking your own time and money to show everyone exactly how these processes work.
Christopher Cochra
Christopher Cochran 一。
Christopher Cochran they should do this in a science class in chemistry but 8ts probably too dangerous...just think, what it Tim over ther just pulled an all nighter or if Kelly binged watched something on Netflix and stayed awake a little too long the night before and they were lab partners?
Than maybe they could whip up something up so that they can make it through another speedy day!
2 am and I watching this type of shit instead of sleeping.
😩😂
The video was very interesting and informative, thank you. As for some of the comments, the video isn't titled "How to get rich extracting gold from computer parts".
no, but it should be "How to lose money extracting gold from computer parts" lol
Wish I'd enjoyed Chemistry back in School as much as I do, now! Thanks, really enjoyed watching the process. ☘ T x
Wow, very well put together. Informative and involved process but looks kinda fun. Thank you for sharing brother, gained a new scriber.
One of the best videos I have ever watched on TH-cam. Thank you.
I know, right?! this guy is a gem! and there are other people making similar videos, but for some reason, this guys videos are ultra informational to me
I enjoyed this video. Not only was is relaxing and informative thanks for being clear. Made me want to study chemistry
I thought the process was very interesting.
Wow, so you spent $55 on PC cards, spent a few days and costly chemicals and ended up with $39.89 worth of gold
Smacks The Frog good comeback!! Oh it must be nice to have a young mind lol. Seriously, good one lol!
good learning process..but does not seem like 100 hours worth of work and equipment, materials, etc for 1 gram of gold ($47) is worth that extraction..but of course i think we all appreciate you showing us the work and methods involved so thanks kindly..
All that for $40 of gold? I could make that in under 2 hours cutting my neighbour's lawns.
this was about the process and the science, not about making money. You missed that bit completely.
So, a video on how to recover gold from computer scrap is not about making money. Okay, I get it now. You know what? The title should have "This is dangerous and not profitable" in it.
use your brain dude. Do you really think a guy would document the whole process which takes near enough a whole day for an end result of a lump of gold that's worth less then what he paid to do the whole thing?. Of course his motivation wasn't too get rich out of doing this. What are you American?...*sigh*
What are you? Stupid? So I sat through a 20 minute video titled "How to recover gold etc..." only to discover at the end that the whole process was not financially viable. Which is why I suggested the new title. And no, I'm not American so the result of your attempted insult is me laughing at you.
So, it cost you 20 (not counting your poorly worded rant) minutes to Learn that it wouldn't work for you, rather than him simply advising you with just words in a title, which you would have simply discounted-based upon your current belligerence- for having "wasted" your time being taught in a way that actually Proved the futility of a process that you believed, or you wouldn't have been motivated to watch this video... When you learn something, bubble bursting or otherwise, be grateful... additionally, your neighbors would be too generous, at that payrate...
very interesting you have alot of talent ,smarts and PATIENCE!!!!! reading thru the comments viewers aren't getting your message i.e. over priced escrap! if you are not
you should be a chem.eng.
Robert Patterson
How long she go to sleep trying to I u in yards good I will pay extra or might not get a chance I will be able to go to sleep
Agreed!
Either you’re the most persistent person I’ve seen or you got a lot of free time to kill....Either one, it was still an interesting video mate. Cheers from Western Australia!
This is just my hobby. But I did make this video so that's folks can see the truth about how much gold is in this type of scrap.
sreetips 👍😀👍 Good luck & Keep it up! As long as you enjoy what you’re doing, it’s never work ;) Cheers mate from Western OZ!!!
I'm from West Oz too!
@@sreetips Yep, not much gold! Thanks for the video, I hope your making something off the +7 million views.
Western Australia! Well, then. G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!
A lot of work and chemicals to extract $39 worth of gold. It was an excellent vid from a scientific standpoint though.
Thats a gram retail
Woa. & i was starting to strip all my old cell phones. This video just changed my determination down. Ugh... Lol but awesome scientifically though. Alot of processing. A day for 39$. 28 days & you can get a ounce. How much did he pay for the set up & chemicals & waste. I dont think its possible to make any money off this system. But for a hobby. 5-10 years itll be a nice retirment. Say you do it 200 days out of the year. Thank you so much for sharing though. Interesting. Good luck
@@jasonvaillancourt2724 buy the scrap while gold is super cheap, process and melt huge quantities while it's high, sell at a profit.
@@probablynotdad6553 thank u for the advice. Thats very human of u. Any suggestions?
@@jasonvaillancourt2724 just what I said, buy when low, sell when high, process as much product as possible to cut downnon wasted materials in order to further lower costs. In the long run just buying the gold or silver already pure is a better investment though.
Looks like alot of work. Anyone want to buy my pc scrap? Lol
He'll get rich, but not from gold, from youtube :D
This was really interesting! Thank you for making this video. I just assumed gold could only be smelted from rocks etc. I never knew it could come from a liquid too then re-made into solid again. Fascinating stuff
This is shear genius as long as you have patience.....this could be a side job for someone.
job implies you'd be earning money. he actually Lost money. $506 spent for the scrap, nets 1 grm or $50 bucks cash. doubt many folks call that a job, but it does look like hella lotta Work
Very interesting, a lot of processes to go through, I don’t think I would have the patience to do that.
Fascinating, but I thought you would get more gold than a small glob the size of a pea.
Very interesting thanks for showing us
Mining in the twenty-first century.
Well versed in chemistry with solid lab technique. This was obviously not his first chemistry set! End to end process was well documented. Enough warnings and cautions to be safe but is not overbearing. Detailed enough documentation so after watching, someone with similar skills and equipment will have the info necessary to reproduce. Very interesting video to watch. Subscribed!
This was educational, and informative. Thank you and appreciate your time by bringing awareness on how these sellers charging people so much money for the scrap that is not worth the time, money, and the coast to get such a small ( Tiny ) amount of gold. But, I will say the scientific/chemical processes was cool.
He got about 40 dollars of gold out of that. He is losing money on this!
tarstarkusz He was not trying to make money but only bring awareness. Read his comments and read what I have wrote.
Trust me he's doing it to make money one way or another. Just look at all of his equipment, he's definitely doing it "big", AND this video will also generate a few dollars. Problem is that nowadays circuit board connectors are covered will thinner and thinner coatings of gold, so there will come a time where it's really not worth the time, and flipping burgers will pay more than this process. Large refineries do it on such large scales that "smaller" operations like this simply cannot compete. Whoever started this 10-20 years ago, those have already made their "money". ;)
Yes Fay, you are correct.
+Bill.. I used to work in a factory that produced cards with gold plated edge connectors and even in an American factory with 80s technology. the gold was extremely thin. These were industrial grade cards too. They were not for PCs, they were used in industrial equipment.
Looked like fun at first.
Nice chemistry and interesting. To put this in perspective the highest grade gold ore in the US (Klondex Mine) produces 44g/1000kg or 44 g/1,000,000g of ore (www.mining.com/the-worlds-highest-grade-gold-mines/). His yield was 1g/500g; very high-grade ore! The question is whether the chemicals, heating, and labor costs were less than the sale value of the bead he got.
As a side story, the AF once put out an RFI for processes to recover the gold from early nuclear bomb control electronics traces. These weren't your current very fine traces but were over-designed to make sure these boards would work no matter what. Don't know if they actually did it. We proposed using molten sodium hydroxide which would eat away all the plastic and leave only metal from the board to be processed.
I’ve always enjoyed my time in the labs when I was at university especially chemistry and bio sciences.
Obviously it’s hard to make a buck.
Thanks for a great video.
I’ve liked and subscribed.
Am I the only one wondering how much grams of gold he needs to cover all the chemicals he used but I always like learning something new
Gold is at about 50$ a gram, I'm pretty sure the chemicals cost less than that. The scrap parts are a bit expensive (I made a quick search and found 12.5$ for 2kg). You have to add to costs of disposal (I have no idea how much that would cost). Melting it isn't probably really expensive.
Then... You have to consider the time spent finding scraps, processing them, lanching the batches and selling the gold.
But I think retrieving a gram of gold is likely to cost you 30$ max.
1 gram of fine gold is really not worth all that effort and chemicals.
@@danilatarcinale1507 I'm a scrapper, I have no investment in the gold bearing items I remove from electronics. The copper and aluminum more than pay the cost of the chemicals. Muriatic acid being the most expensive at 8$ a gallon, the beach and peroxide come from the dollar store, so all my chemicals.....10$. I'm retired so what better way to enjoy a hobby and make a bit of money.
Thanks
Erin Cummings 6 hours ago · LINKED COMMENT
I have a bag of old computer parts that have gold teeth that appear to be soldered on. would this solution dissolve what appears to be a different material of metal? I'm not quite sure what parts they are because they were left for me from my uncle that passed away
Erin, it should work. give it a try and let us know your results.
+streetips 1 question... so much energy of you of your electricity wasted... Also wasted money buy the equipment for only 1 gram.? sorry man this is amazing but in the other hand wasteful
+Γιωργος Αργυρακης He bought pounds of scrap, used less than 1/4 pound for the test, and got 1 gram pure gold. Yeah, he's losing money, but he explained that earlier. This isn't a lifestyle, just a hobby and how-to I guess. Pretty awesome to have a pure chunk of gold like that anyway, and to be able to say you made it, or reclaimed it anyway.
+dadajack i agree with you mate i fully understand what you are saying ty
+dadajack I am not sure how you calculate that but he used 500 grams of scrap fingers which is 17.637 oz and that is just over a pound. He did have some left over fingers still stuck which he was going to process a second time so he is looking at maybe 1 gram of gold per pound of scrap. So at the current price of gold that gram is only worth $38.59 so his $417 of scrap is worth maybe $192 minus the cost of chemicals. That sucks.
+Γιωργος Αργυρακης your right, it's not worth it at the price I paid, but it could be profitable if you could get the scrap for free.
It's incredible how efficient we are at using it. 1 gram from 500grams of trimmed circuit card fingers!
This was educational, awesome video!
Very interesting, looks like a great hobby. Like any hobby you certainly aren't going to get rich doing it. well done
Thanks for the video. I was wondering how it was done. I will subscribe.
Thanks Gregg
If you have access to the equipment, then why not do it in your spare time. 4 grams f gold is close to $$200
Very intense process I'd never really thought about, and yet here I am after many TH-cam clicks.
Wondering if you paid yourself minimum wage for time and cost of materials and chemicals what your net would be for 1 oz at stated spot price? Must be worthwhile or you wouldn’t be doing it.
It's not worthwhile. This was a loss.
this is literally when i'd figure out how to make a pressing machine with a blade to just cut those off.
bandsaw would cut them all at once
duckbill plyers one quick pinch and it's off nice and clean
You can actually just use a soldering iron and remove all the pins with it. Lol it's so much easier and you can use a shit ton of less chemicals. Or you can just melt what you pulled off but it'll include copper, tin.. yeah
So 500 grams of material to 1 gram of Gold and approx. 1700 grams of material left over to refine.Hmmm? Not gonna be any profit there. But very, very interesting! Thanks!
River City MOVERS you need to do somthing with the read part you can't see it most of the time
Its a ratio, 500:1. If you want 1kg of pure gold you would need 500,000g of circuit boards, which is about half a ton
$45 bb? You’re in the negative by about $500 in chemicals , scrap parts, labor, utilities, gas, etc. smh 🤦🏻♂️
Cool, but you spent all this time and process, plus purchased these chemicals and the potential hazards that go along with doing it to make about $40.00 worth of gold?? I just don't understand how this would be profitable.
I believe the profit was making the video and getting millions of views for it.
interesting video ....quite a little setup as well ...looks like a good end product .that bubbler beaker reminded me of my younger days ..thanks for taking the time to teach at ur expense
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Never saw this before. Very interesting video. Cool to see it done.
Very cool! I always wondered what stump out was, it works great. This video teaches more than one thinks.
what do you think they do with recycled computers and cell phones and other electronics gold is a great economic conductor in technology
Beautiful chemistry but hardly seems worth it.
+CowLunch - it is hard to justify unless you can get the scrap for free.
+CowLunch i am not expert but yea seem more like a hobby of him, all that touble just for that tiny amount of gold doesnt seem worth it. Well who knows maybe he can store all the gold in a safe and in some years it will be worth like triple, depends on the market. no idea how that works lol
+krlitos - hello. You are right, this is just a hobby for me. But I do enjoy making these videos. The bead in this video is actually for sale on eBay. If you type "computer scrap 500 grams fingers 1.2 gold bead" you'll see the listing. My eBay user name is "bafelous". In the eBay listing I've added the link to this video. Hoping it will drive more traffic to my youtube channel. Thank you for watching!
It looked like you made about $400 profit?
bear northpole I thought it was a loss?
I found the video to be very informative as well as entertaining. This was a more advanced technological (chemistry) way of mining for gold.
Interesting process but you spent over $89 + chemicals + precious time. Today, that 1 gram is worth $41.39.
6.2 million views, WOW!!!
Now that's a GREAT TH-cam video, not to mention 5,700+ comments! That's probably the highest number I've seen on an ewaste vid, but I'm not one to try and look around much. I try to find someone I like and I stick with them! That was what I was expecting a half kilo to yield 1 gram!
Great Job!!!
P.S. to bad all those 6.2 million views didn't hit the sub button! :)
Try cutting the fingers with bench shear - minimal effort and high productivity :)
Or a basic dremel tool with a cutting blade on the end.
I put them in a vise & break them off...
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Bandsaw
Excellent video very informative
Glad you liked it
Great video, I'm starting to enjoy these "Recover" Gold videos. It's pretty interesting plus the chemistry is pretty cool too. I thought you would get a little more Gold outta that but it is what it is.
cost of scrap - 100, cost to materials chemicals, electricity etc - 1000, cost of time spent - 0, sale price of gold recovered - 5000. Net profit = 400%. Beat that !!
@@rohitkhanna gold is way too CHEAP! This economy degraded the worthiness of gold, since the euro/dollar have inflated, but gold and valuable metals did not!
Jon, nothing, and I mean nothing, is priced correctly. My philosophy: convert paper to metal as quick as you can. Because when it gets away from them, and it will, then those who have metal will be glad that they do and those who don’t will wish that they did. Fiat paper has a 100% failure rate. Not one has ever survived.
As of Dec. 2019 that was at least $40 worth if 999 gold.
If u could do this process on an industrial scale then youv got something.
There are companies doing that. They often pick up waste computer parts for free also.
Yeah it’s called your cell phones and computers that you all donate back they make more money on the money you all spend to resale it lmao
Very cool and interesting video. It was educational to those unfamiliar with the process.
Crazy how some people fail to recognize the educational aspect of this and instead assume you were trying to show "how to get rich off mining gold from old computer parts". Haha.
Cool video. Thanks for taking the time to create it and share -- regardless of the final $$$ yield, since that wasn't the ultimate point. (I.e. point was to inform and educate on how one process could be taken to extract gold from old parts.....period!)
Cheers!
Thanks Crossifixio. I welcome those who come here looking for the get-rich-quick solution. Even if they leave a negative comment, they still got to learn the truth about how much gold this type of scrap really contains. And that it's not that easy to get. It's the reason I made the video, to do my part to kill the myth.
Hey, thanks for that informative video. I think many watching missed the point.
so... 1 gram … seems like a lot of work for $20 worth of Gold. Not cost effective to reclaim.
computers now use thin layers of gold, used to use solid gold for pins etc
Very informing and honest. Thanks!
What patience and dedication to do this. I personally don’t think I would do it, just out of laziness. But I’m sure going to show this to other people who may be interested. Great job!
the whole process for $50 bucks for of gold, that he spent $450 for. Crazy but recycling is great!
irony isn't it? Thomas Edison tested 2000 light bulbs, what a brave man he was with patience and endurance. we would be still burning candles and kill the great white whale for the fatty bladder for spending a lousy $450???
This is not all the gold. He only used a little bit of the fingers. He probably could have had done this like many times more.
@@rayknn He would die of old age before he got all the gold out at that rate
The real profit lies in the vid, just like back in the gold rush days the shovel salesman made all the booty!
No one seems to get this. Most commenters are frustrated by the lack of profit from the pitifully small yields this type scrap gives. The green,is in the vid, just like you said my friend.
Maybe you should have put the message "THIS IS NOT FOR PROFIT, IT IS FOR EDUCATION" in the notes of the video...then had a blinking message in the video that said the same thing. Of course, that would have only cut down the people griping about not making any profit down about 5%.
I thought it would be self evident, that's why I included the cost data.
Ya...but people don't pay attention. Anyway, I enjoy your educational videos. Keep making them!
as I was watching your video I thought of mr. white on the tv show breaking bad. the video was very interesting and educational. thank you for the video.
Seems like alot of work for such a small outcome, & the chemistry is way over my head...There are alot more smarter people out there than me... but if you enjoy your hobby then who am i to say its wrong..
Please read the video description.
Very interesting. Thank you, though I'll never try this at home!
So, more for the rest of us
@@dantyler1558 There sure will be.
This guy has very good lab skills!
Did not expect that redox reaction at the end to precipitate gold.
Skills recognize skills, huh Mr. Amphetamine?
That name is pretty clever though, you gotta admit lol
Destroying computer parts for Gold is a Sin , Your taking a Valuable non replaceable component away from future computer collectors and Curators . If the card did not work I can see it , but your cutting fingers right off for the Gold that totally goes against the computer collectors code of conduct . Your making it Harfer to get older Ram and Video Card . They are Worth More Selling as a Working Part ...So Sad :( :\ QC
thanks so much for your work! really appreciate