The bowl cracked off because of the Borax which is making damages on the ceramic when used repetitively in the same contaner. It makes the same during weld-forging steel processes.
Pretty interesting. I recovered .18 grams of gold using the aqua regia method several years back from about 50 (iirc) Pentium 133 CPUs. I had purchased about 200 of them for the project, along with a ton of board scrap from my own collection over the years. At the time I did it, the .18 grams was nowhere near enough to justify the cost I put into it, so the rest fo the processors and scrap laid in my closet for over a decade, until just a few months ago, I finally just gave it all away because I was tired of moving it around. A couple years back I had finally decided to sell my little nugget and made back all of the money I had initially invested, so I was pretty much break even. The most fun part was where the sheriff and hazmat truck along with a couple more fire engines showed up at my house because a neighbor had called the police thinking I was making meth in my backyard, lol
Hasn't broken even with the gold. However with the number of views on the video, he has made more from youtube than from the gold which is what tylisirn was getting at.
im glad you gave us your "lessons learned" and showed the mistakes, in the video. i always see these videos from folks that have been doing this for a very long time and although they advise the viewer of some error traps, the viewer doesn't see the process develop through a novices perspective. thanks mate.
I’ve watched a lot of these types of videos, but this one was by far the best and most descriptive. At the same time you explained everything vary simply so anyone can understand. You also explain the chemistry that’s happening which was vary appreciated. I’ve done everything but melt the gold powder. Thank you so much for making this. Thanks for the bleach tip too because nitric acid is extremely expensive lol!
I really loved the miniature extraction. Like to see more of those because they are more something that I could do myself without buying expensive beakers and such.
@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 Unless you have shit ton of monies to purchase all the professional equipment, that is! But at this point you home IS LAB, effectively. So is this counts as doing at home still???
That gold melting process looked successful at the end. The whole video contains a stream of really good information presented well, and in a straight forward, thinking process. Good work here. Good inclusion of the evaluation about profit from this method at the end.
Ilove the step by step narration and the showing of what the chems do and make with each other. not overwhelming and it goes by rather quickly when you start watching. keep up the great work!
"Up until this point, it seemed like everything was going so well, but unfortunately with chemistry there's always something that goes wrong." This line resonates with me so much as a chemistry major.
Great stuff! On a side note, very old chips from the 70s and 80s, esp the chips made by the Soviet block - these chips do no uset gold coating, their made out of gold entirely You could much better yields if you get hold of such chips, although I believed the vast majority of these were already processed. I have a friend who had some chips from the Soviet era and he used the same process to extract- yields of free gold were pretty impressive. Just an fyi if anyone happens to have very very old chips lying around. You get a lot more gold out of these.
I got very lucky and got about half a dozen old high-grade early 90's SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT circuit boards FOR FREE! Every single circuit pathway is heavy-gold plated. Gold was at it's lowest price back then, and high-end equipment used a LOT of it! I estimate a full ounce from those boards when I'm done!
Thank you for going through the trouble of all this. Yes, it's not profitable for money, but invaluable for knowledge. You saved us a lot of trouble working with those chemicals most of us don't know as much about, or have the proper safety equipment to handle. I would not get started without the safety gear first. Great set of videos!
Really love your videos! Your narration is really easy to listen to, and I like that you include when you make mistakes and things don't go as you expected. And you're Canadian! Woo!
The gold on the RAM trimming is ticker then the Gold on the surface of random PCBs. If the PCB design engineer knows what he is doing, he will specify a different process for those contact zones. (galvanic applied "Hard-Gold" instead of just chemically applied NiAu) An other point: Correct me if I am wrong, but your process looks like recovering pure gold from the surface. In E-Waste, you have lot more issues: Most of the gold is in an Tin-Silver-Copper-...-Gold Alloy (if you are lucky - lead or bismuth were or are used as solder alloy component). Then there was a time, when the silicon in semiconductors was connected with Gold wires to the leads of the housing. To get this gold, you would have to dissolve the epoxy chip housing (and hope that there is Gold and not aluminium wires). At least when the chip has gold bonding, then it is pretty pure gold, so that's lucky. The video was awesome by the way: As an electronics engineer, I am always interested how a chemist handles solid and liquid metals
"Classic paper towel extraction." :) I've been chuckling about that for a good half hour now every time I think about it. Great job with the gold processing over the past two videos! I really truly hope you continue your chemistry videos for a long time. It'll be a sad, sad day when you and ChemPlayer finally stop (hopefully in the far distant future). I don't know if you've realized but you guys are creating something that no one in the history of humanity has ever had the convenience of. You're creating this amazing video record of chemical reactions that will hopefully live on and benefit people for a long long time. You never know, the next Einstein 50 years from now could make some amazing scientific breakthrough and credit it all back to being inspired to get involved in science because of videos like the ones you guys make. Maybe that sounds silly but I don't know how else to emphasize the importance of the documentation of cold hard applied science.
By the way, many IC chip packages have 24k gold wire connecting the chip itself to the lead frame. But you will need to dissolve the epoxy to get to them.
@@eczplaysgamesyt2885 Thank god you caught that minor typo from 2 years ago, I'm sure Roach is highly ashamed his crime was right out in the open for all that time.
I've never done this, but I'm very familiar with computers and parts. The parts that I'd say have the most gold on them are RAM, GPUs, PCI/PCI-E/AGP cards, connectors (IDE/SATA, etc), cable ends (hard drive cables and sometimes you might find a very, very tiny amount of ethernet connectors), CPU pins (depending on the generation of CPU, there may or may not be pins...some use very small flat plates, which I presume would have even less gold on them). There's probably some in power supplies too, but if I had to guess, most is going to come from RAM, GPUs and PCI/PCI-E/AGP cards. I'd imagine that PCI cards and GPUs would have a bit more than RAM, due to the size of the slot. I'm not sure I'd even mess with motherboards or any of that type of stuff, the return would be too low, unless you can get it for practically free, or free. If extraction of copper is worth doing, there would be more copper in power supplies, heatsinks (CPU/GPU/motherboard) and of course the cabling/wires. Good luck. :)
Yep, if you crack open a metal top CPU like a p133 or 166 you can see the actual chip basically suspended on a bed of gold thread. It's pretty cool looking. PSUs have a little palladium, and if you do a really thorough job of it, you can also recover rhodium and palladium from the capacitors on some boards (at least you could in the past, no idea if the manufacture of them has changed). Catalytic converters are also a good source of precious metals if you can process enough of them to make it worth the money.
Yes, the older equipment has more in it than the new stuff. If you can scarf up some old mainframes, they are LOADED with it. (think VAX 11785 or 11780) but even the early PCs were good. think about the manufacturing processes and how we've improved them over time. I have a box where I collect anything cold, from tanks from vape junk to connectors to garbage rings and jewelry, once it's processed, who cares where it came from.
I work at a company that refurbishes used electronics and anything we can't fix or can't financially justify fixing is sent off to a partner company for precious metal extraction. Some of the components we set aside as "high yield" that surprised me were the PCBs connected to laptop webcams and touchpads.
Gorgeous video (pt1 & pt2)and a big thanks to your careful scientific work on yields. Your data is the best I have seen on Gold recovery.With your figure of $11 per pound of scrap that is $22,000 per ton.So in large scale processes that would be very profitable.
Hey thank you so much for this video! I have a slight obsession with circuit boards and have been curious as to how I could get the gold out of them, like just for a hobby. It’s like this video was made just for me!!! I’m so excited!! I can’t wait to try this!! Thank you again!!
That thing with spilled material happened to scientist working on expensive materials (cant't remeber which, saw it on periodic videos channel) he spilled entire country's worth of ultra expensive material on wooden table. He basically made the same procedure "cut the table, process table" to recover it :)
I really like how you share the mistakes and the steps you take to fix them. Another channel would just go "oh well" and skip over. Btw watched all your vids newest to oldest and I have reached here! So I guess I'm a fan
The secret is to become the dumping ground for all your friend's and family's tech junk. Don't spend money on the old tech junk - just take that crap off of your friend's and family's hands. Don't overlook your employers either. I've emptied many back rooms worth of tech graveyard for my boss at no cost to me. I've been doing this for years as a side hobby. I collect every dead motherboard, every dead PC, every dead printer, every replaced hard drive, every old video game system, old TVs (the old cathode ray monsters, plasmas and LCDs), every old phone and every broken electronic toy. I even collect everyone's old smoke alarms and anything else that has even a small PCB in it. You can pass the same solution through several slightly different processes to get all the gold, silver, platinum, copper and aluminum out of it. All of those metals have value and if you're going to the work of this anyway it doesn't make much sense to just wash everything not gold down the drain. I mean seriously you only spend twenty minutes to an hour doing something and then you're leaving everything sit for a night or a couple of days or a week so why not. Also don't overlook the computer cases and motherboard trays. Some of the cases and motherboard trays are aluminum and can be cut up and processed to get rid of the enamel, glues, solder, etc as well and they add up. Aluminum isn't worth what gold or platnium is worth but when you get it for free it adds up pretty quickly. In the six years I have been doing this as a hobby I've made enough money selling the precious metals to local jewelers and the aluminum and copper to a local metals supply house I've bought myself a very nice a Mesa Boogie tube amp head with a Mesa Boogie 4 x 12 slant cabinet and built a very nice custom Jagstang and a Jazzmaster from bodies and necks I custom ordered from Warmoth and filled out with my choice of amazing parts. For those of you not into guitars at all that's about seven thousand dollars. My wife stopped complaining about all of the spare parts collecting in the basement periodically when she realized my new music gear was not coming out of house money.
Glad to see someone talking about the economics of this process as well as the chemistry. Some people hear the word gold and think they are going to get rich!
This is excellent and thanks for doing that. I have acquired a lot of old satellite receivers and other equipment that are full of PCBs and didn't know what to do with them as I live in a remote area of northern BC and shipping it away would cost too much. I can scrap it here and salvage a bit of gold in the process. Win/win!
Nilered ... Thank you for the informative video I finally understand how an why the reaction works , all the many videos I've seen are good aswell but your explanation an simplifying of the details was easy to understand.
Also if u do gold drops often can u make a video for a stockpot (your left over waist from the gold solutions setting in a bucket) I have a lot an don't know how to refine the black stuff at the bottom of the bucket . I heard it's gold an platinum. I tried looking myself an did the research but me and others don't understand how to properly refine it. please an thanks
I think it is possible to filter precipitated gold by standard coffe filter, by boilig the precipitated gold suspension, that should coales the gold particles so they won"t go through :)
I know this is an old video, but have you ever thought about making a video about separating the copper and nickel from the waste byproduct of this process? Edit: Copper itself might be worth something, but I'm mostly just curious of the process.
So gold is not the only metal found in computer chips and circuit boards, there's rhodium, palladium, copper, and platinum, as well as another of other metals. I realized that the gold may not be worth it alone but what about the extraction of the other metals, as well as those used in the ICS and other components? I really just wonder what the continent of these metals is. As well as what other methods could be used to extract those,. Would the waste chemicals be something that you could further extract from?
I think what you need to think of i actually extracting everything. including gold, copper and other metals, if you have the gear to do so. That's what the big e-waste plants do.
Can't wait to see you distle mercury. I recently recovered mercury from a mercury displacement contactor. It was the first time I've ever seen mercury. It's such cool stuff. Especially when I used your method of cleaning it.
I work for a local computer repair company, if you are interested in doing this for fun call a local place and see if they could sell scrap parts for cheep. I am always trying to offload old ddr2 ram and HDD boards. Also check out where the local computer drop off location is. Each county should have a drop location for old technology to properly dispose of them. People will often take junk there and if you know what you are looking for pickup old circuits and salvage them for the gold. Fun little experiment.
Hey Nile! You should really post that Lithium Peroxide video next! Im really looking forward to it! I've got all of my equipment now and I'm totally psyched to get going! I just my first extraction of caffeine from coffee using a soxhlet extractor but I cant wait for the total synthesis too!
i used to work for a company that did this on a massive scale and they would usually just incinerate the entire board with massive scrubbers to keep the toxic fumes under control then would recover the gold platinum silver and other metals from the ash
"You'll notice the melting bowl is cracked"
yeah no sorry I was way too distracted by the burning table
Ha ha ha. So was I.
cowards i was looking at the sexy, amazing, beautiful, table
@@heresy5325 It is pretty hot.
The bowl cracked off because of the Borax which is making damages on the ceramic when used repetitively in the same contaner. It makes the same during weld-forging steel processes.
@@TheRealRB3902 starting from 14:13
that stirr bar looks cute for some reason
it does
That's what I said when I was watching the vid lol
it is.
it's a BABY T_T
i totally agree with you
Pretty interesting. I recovered .18 grams of gold using the aqua regia method several years back from about 50 (iirc) Pentium 133 CPUs. I had purchased about 200 of them for the project, along with a ton of board scrap from my own collection over the years. At the time I did it, the .18 grams was nowhere near enough to justify the cost I put into it, so the rest fo the processors and scrap laid in my closet for over a decade, until just a few months ago, I finally just gave it all away because I was tired of moving it around.
A couple years back I had finally decided to sell my little nugget and made back all of the money I had initially invested, so I was pretty much break even.
The most fun part was where the sheriff and hazmat truck along with a couple more fire engines showed up at my house because a neighbor had called the police thinking I was making meth in my backyard, lol
thats indeed hillarious xD thanks for sharing
Jesse, are you making meth in your backyard again?
Bastard neighbors, they should mind their damn business
Your neighbour sounds lovely
i think your neighbour knows bit too much about making meth. suspicious.
How to make money extracting gold from PCBs: film it and post it on youtube... :P
tylisirn he said he's not even close to breakeven :/
Hasn't broken even with the gold. However with the number of views on the video, he has made more from youtube than from the gold which is what tylisirn was getting at.
Nathan Rogers r/whoosh
No, I believe Nathan Rogers understands the joke.
Nathan Rogers
My 8 GB RAM finds this video extremely offensive
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that was an adorable stir bar
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im glad you gave us your "lessons learned" and showed the mistakes, in the video. i always see these videos from folks that have been doing this for a very long time and although they advise the viewer of some error traps, the viewer doesn't see the process develop through a novices perspective. thanks mate.
9:45 I like how he makes cleaning up a spill like the most chemistry thing ever
Cotton balls?
I’ve watched a lot of these types of videos, but this one was by far the best and most descriptive. At the same time you explained everything vary simply so anyone can understand. You also explain the chemistry that’s happening which was vary appreciated. I’ve done everything but melt the gold powder. Thank you so much for making this. Thanks for the bleach tip too because nitric acid is extremely expensive lol!
I really loved the miniature extraction. Like to see more of those because they are more something that I could do myself without buying expensive beakers and such.
Just scale it down.
KAMUIIIII
The vast majority of his videos feature things you absolutely should not be doing at home.
@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 Unless you have shit ton of monies to purchase all the professional equipment, that is! But at this point you home IS LAB, effectively. So is this counts as doing at home still???
I loved how everything was so tiny. Especially that little stir bar
That gold melting process looked successful at the end. The whole video contains a stream of really good information presented well, and in a straight forward, thinking process. Good work here. Good inclusion of the evaluation about profit from this method at the end.
Ilove the step by step narration and the showing of what the chems do and make with each other. not overwhelming and it goes by rather quickly when you start watching. keep up the great work!
"Up until this point, it seemed like everything was going so well, but unfortunately with chemistry there's always something that goes wrong." This line resonates with me so much as a chemistry major.
At industrial scale the steel and copper are what you go for, the gold is a side line of copper refining
Great stuff!
On a side note, very old chips from the 70s and 80s, esp the chips made by the Soviet block - these chips do no uset gold coating, their made out of gold entirely
You could much better yields if you get hold of such chips, although I believed the vast majority of these were already processed.
I have a friend who had some chips from the Soviet era and he used the same process to extract- yields of free gold were pretty impressive.
Just an fyi if anyone happens to have very very old chips lying around. You get a lot more gold out of these.
TH-cam finally recommend me some good video!
Play minecraft
stop playing jail break
bruh stop commenting on all videos just for more subs
@@henom3464 probably need some views because his last vid made 16K views
vg be always watching
I got very lucky and got about half a dozen old high-grade early 90's SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT circuit boards FOR FREE! Every single circuit pathway is heavy-gold plated. Gold was at it's lowest price back then, and high-end equipment used a LOT of it! I estimate a full ounce from those boards when I'm done!
"a classic paper towel abstraction"
I lol'ed
+Leonard Greenpaw it is a classic but very shameful and upsetting technique. Usually we would use KimWipes but i didnt have any those.
+Leonard Greenpaw it is a classic but very shameful and upsetting technique. Usually we would use KimWipes but i didnt have any those.
NileRed
I just love how you made it sound so professional, even though its a thing normal people do XD. Also Hi! Love your videos :D
"What you see here is the classic filth-removing technique"
*wash my hand*
Thank you for going through the trouble of all this. Yes, it's not profitable for money, but invaluable for knowledge. You saved us a lot of trouble working with those chemicals most of us don't know as much about, or have the proper safety equipment to handle. I would not get started without the safety gear first. Great set of videos!
Really love your videos! Your narration is really easy to listen to, and I like that you include when you make mistakes and things don't go as you expected. And you're Canadian! Woo!
Would love to see more total synthesis videos like the caffeine one you have planned
+Bart Pratt dont worry things will happen eventually!
filtration from a small bottle
that's cute as shit
yes
No
Shit isn't cute my dude
@@carterruhleproductions7781 but mine is :(
@@VivekYadav-ds8oz Bahaahaa
7:11 aww a little stir bar for a little container!
Dunno whats wrong with me
The gold on the RAM trimming is ticker then the Gold on the surface of random PCBs. If the PCB design engineer knows what he is doing, he will specify a different process for those contact zones. (galvanic applied "Hard-Gold" instead of just chemically applied NiAu)
An other point: Correct me if I am wrong, but your process looks like recovering pure gold from the surface. In E-Waste, you have lot more issues: Most of the gold is in an Tin-Silver-Copper-...-Gold Alloy (if you are lucky - lead or bismuth were or are used as solder alloy component). Then there was a time, when the silicon in semiconductors was connected with Gold wires to the leads of the housing. To get this gold, you would have to dissolve the epoxy chip housing (and hope that there is Gold and not aluminium wires). At least when the chip has gold bonding, then it is pretty pure gold, so that's lucky.
The video was awesome by the way: As an electronics engineer, I am always interested how a chemist handles solid and liquid metals
7:25 I like how the small bottle tried to escape.
You make incredible videos man. I always get excited when I see a new NileRed chemistry vid on my feed.
+woofyams thanks, i am glsd you like them!:)
@NileRed why do I find the typo so adorable though
"Classic paper towel extraction." :)
I've been chuckling about that for a good half hour now every time I think about it.
Great job with the gold processing over the past two videos! I really truly hope you continue your chemistry videos for a long time. It'll be a sad, sad day when you and ChemPlayer finally stop (hopefully in the far distant future).
I don't know if you've realized but you guys are creating something that no one in the history of humanity has ever had the convenience of. You're creating this amazing video record of chemical reactions that will hopefully live on and benefit people for a long long time.
You never know, the next Einstein 50 years from now could make some amazing scientific breakthrough and credit it all back to being inspired to get involved in science because of videos like the ones you guys make.
Maybe that sounds silly but I don't know how else to emphasize the importance of the documentation of cold hard applied science.
Damn that was some emotional shit.
By the way, many IC chip packages have 24k gold wire connecting the chip itself to the lead frame. But you will need to dissolve the epoxy to get to them.
Couldn’t you just burn all the plastic epoxi etc and make live much more easy?
7:10 I din't know there were stir bars that small!
“Didn’t”
@@eczplaysgamesyt2885 Thank god you caught that minor typo from 2 years ago, I'm sure Roach is highly ashamed his crime was right out in the open for all that time.
I've never done this, but I'm very familiar with computers and parts. The parts that I'd say have the most gold on them are RAM, GPUs, PCI/PCI-E/AGP cards, connectors (IDE/SATA, etc), cable ends (hard drive cables and sometimes you might find a very, very tiny amount of ethernet connectors), CPU pins (depending on the generation of CPU, there may or may not be pins...some use very small flat plates, which I presume would have even less gold on them). There's probably some in power supplies too, but if I had to guess, most is going to come from RAM, GPUs and PCI/PCI-E/AGP cards. I'd imagine that PCI cards and GPUs would have a bit more than RAM, due to the size of the slot. I'm not sure I'd even mess with motherboards or any of that type of stuff, the return would be too low, unless you can get it for practically free, or free. If extraction of copper is worth doing, there would be more copper in power supplies, heatsinks (CPU/GPU/motherboard) and of course the cabling/wires.
Good luck. :)
There is also tiny gold wires in all ICs.
Yep, if you crack open a metal top CPU like a p133 or 166 you can see the actual chip basically suspended on a bed of gold thread. It's pretty cool looking.
PSUs have a little palladium, and if you do a really thorough job of it, you can also recover rhodium and palladium from the capacitors on some boards (at least you could in the past, no idea if the manufacture of them has changed).
Catalytic converters are also a good source of precious metals if you can process enough of them to make it worth the money.
Yes, the older equipment has more in it than the new stuff. If you can scarf up some old mainframes, they are LOADED with it. (think VAX 11785 or 11780) but even the early PCs were good. think about the manufacturing processes and how we've improved them over time. I have a box where I collect anything cold, from tanks from vape junk to connectors to garbage rings and jewelry, once it's processed, who cares where it came from.
Old Pentiums are the best
I work at a company that refurbishes used electronics and anything we can't fix or can't financially justify fixing is sent off to a partner company for precious metal extraction. Some of the components we set aside as "high yield" that surprised me were the PCBs connected to laptop webcams and touchpads.
Gorgeous video (pt1 & pt2)and a big thanks to your careful scientific work on yields.
Your data is the best I have seen on Gold recovery.With your figure of $11 per pound of
scrap that is $22,000 per ton.So in large scale processes that would be very profitable.
7:13 that's the cutest little stir bar I've ever seen
whats a stir bar
@@laffys7384 *puts hand on shoulder* “Just Look At the name”
@1:08 And now we have our finished ram spaghetti.
Not quite aldente yet.
Instructions unclear. I now have a multi-million dollar gold mine.
Gimme ur instructions lol
I ended up being a sulfate miner in China... send help pls
Hey thank you so much for this video! I have a slight obsession with circuit boards and have been curious as to how I could get the gold out of them, like just for a hobby. It’s like this video was made just for me!!! I’m so excited!! I can’t wait to try this!! Thank you again!!
That tiny stir bar at 7:15 is so cuteeeee lol
Never thought a boy would say “cute” unless they are making fun of another boy
That thing with spilled material happened to scientist working on expensive materials (cant't remeber which, saw it on periodic videos channel) he spilled entire country's worth of ultra expensive material on wooden table. He basically made the same procedure "cut the table, process table" to recover it :)
Plutonium. Whole uk national reserve, about a few mg in the fifties.
Link to the video please!
I believe it was plutonium.
Periodic table of videos on yt
th-cam.com/video/89UNPdNtOoE/w-d-xo.html skip to 16:18. (Might be 15:18) it’s a long video then at the end he talks about it.
you know he gets closer to the end when he uses smaller and smaller containers.
"So, what you're seeing now is a classic paper towel extraction..." I love this science-y rephrasing of "I mopped up the spill with paper towel"
1:05 "I repeatedly wet the RAM trimmings, and then I shake them around" *proceeds to shake them with the might of a tornado*
1:03 is a little better so u can see it but if u have captions it’s still a little better
I really like how you share the mistakes and the steps you take to fix them. Another channel would just go "oh well" and skip over. Btw watched all your vids newest to oldest and I have reached here! So I guess I'm a fan
That was the cutest stir bar I have ever seen
It's so smol ;_;
@@diemilch555 small*
@@eczplaysgamesyt2885 what?
@@eczplaysgamesyt2885 That's 2 lives you've saved now. Well done citizen.
The secret is to become the dumping ground for all your friend's and family's tech junk. Don't spend money on the old tech junk - just take that crap off of your friend's and family's hands. Don't overlook your employers either. I've emptied many back rooms worth of tech graveyard for my boss at no cost to me. I've been doing this for years as a side hobby. I collect every dead motherboard, every dead PC, every dead printer, every replaced hard drive, every old video game system, old TVs (the old cathode ray monsters, plasmas and LCDs), every old phone and every broken electronic toy. I even collect everyone's old smoke alarms and anything else that has even a small PCB in it. You can pass the same solution through several slightly different processes to get all the gold, silver, platinum, copper and aluminum out of it. All of those metals have value and if you're going to the work of this anyway it doesn't make much sense to just wash everything not gold down the drain. I mean seriously you only spend twenty minutes to an hour doing something and then you're leaving everything sit for a night or a couple of days or a week so why not. Also don't overlook the computer cases and motherboard trays. Some of the cases and motherboard trays are aluminum and can be cut up and processed to get rid of the enamel, glues, solder, etc as well and they add up. Aluminum isn't worth what gold or platnium is worth but when you get it for free it adds up pretty quickly.
In the six years I have been doing this as a hobby I've made enough money selling the precious metals to local jewelers and the aluminum and copper to a local metals supply house I've bought myself a very nice a Mesa Boogie tube amp head with a Mesa Boogie 4 x 12 slant cabinet and built a very nice custom Jagstang and a Jazzmaster from bodies and necks I custom ordered from Warmoth and filled out with my choice of amazing parts. For those of you not into guitars at all that's about seven thousand dollars.
My wife stopped complaining about all of the spare parts collecting in the basement periodically when she realized my new music gear was not coming out of house money.
"The classic paper towel extraction". Totally scientific. I'm surprised it isn't used in major labs around the world!
+MatVenture youd be surprised how many times it is used in research
NileRed I know I've used it alone in mine, that's for sure!
Really great that instead of editing out your mistake .. you show that mistakes do happen .. and how to deal with them. ☮
Its always great to see a new video of yours!
+Dawid Ziaja There will be a bunch more coming soon too. Im on an editing spree
+NileRed you should make a actual foundry watch kindofrandoms video
+Isaac Janing
That channel doesn't have anything like that on it. Did you mean king of random?
+Go IntoTheCalm yah
Glad to see someone talking about the economics of this process as well as the chemistry. Some people hear the word gold and think they are going to get rich!
Me watching this video : i n t e r e s t i n g
My computer parts working to let me see how other parts are getting destroyed : D:
love the way you are so professionally talking about the "paper towel extraction" XD
Thanks, now i can buy a new ferrari
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As a big fan of tiny things, I really enjoyed the last extraction
And to think, all those E.T. Atari cartridges were just dumped in a landfill. There must be whole dollars worth of gold amongst those carts.
**When will u ever learn** u know it’s props🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Love the Paper Towel Extraction technique, I've never seen that procedure in my texts. Very useful!
Informative, interesting, high quality. Really good video!
+Darude_Mama thanks!
This is excellent and thanks for doing that. I have acquired a lot of old satellite receivers and other equipment that are full of PCBs and didn't know what to do with them as I live in a remote area of northern BC and shipping it away would cost too much. I can scrap it here and salvage a bit of gold in the process. Win/win!
My dad took my pc rams the other day.
I see why
im glad you did it twice foe folks who are just learning about chemistry
POV:
you didn't get recommended this. You got here from part 1.
actually i got recomended
Best explanation of the process available on TH-cam!👍👍👍👍👍
Your videos are like crack. LoL
I hated chemistry in undergrad, but now I work as a biologist doing some fluorescence chemistry in the laboratory.
Im glad you like them!
So basically after step 146 you have made gold
I actually wanna see ephedrine extraction from the cold pills! Could be a cool video!
Calm down there Walter White
I move that there should be more videos of tiny chemistry with adorable teensy apparatuses.
You need to do that process with old-tech processors, with a 1kg you can extract between 5g to 8g of gold.
Sorry for my bad syntax English skill.
8:12 I love these mini kitchen cooking shows.
Interesting video. Sorry about your dining table
haha!
Robert bradberyry
i love seeing what you do to recover from disasters. & i love that you don't cut that out to make yourself look perfect.
Love your videos!
You explain everything so nicely!!!😊
Nilered ... Thank you for the informative video I finally understand how an why the reaction works , all the many videos I've seen are good aswell but your explanation an simplifying of the details was easy to understand.
Also if u do gold drops often can u make a video for a stockpot (your left over waist from the gold solutions setting in a bucket) I have a lot an don't know how to refine the black stuff at the bottom of the bucket . I heard it's gold an platinum. I tried looking myself an did the research but me and others don't understand how to properly refine it. please an thanks
I am not sure if you have answered this before but where do you usually get your chemicals?
internet.
+Ashton Calleder i get them wherever i can. Ebay mostly
NileRed hows the quality of Ebay grade chemicals?
Depends on the seller. Most chemical supply sellers on eBay are professional chemists.
I think it is possible to filter precipitated gold by standard coffe filter, by boilig the precipitated gold suspension, that should coales the gold particles so they won"t go through :)
+Qwertypp10 that is true. I should have done that!
I know this is an old video, but have you ever thought about making a video about separating the copper and nickel from the waste byproduct of this process? Edit: Copper itself might be worth something, but I'm mostly just curious of the process.
Great series! Best gold recovery vid on youtube! Thank you
13:24 ... bro you dropped gold outside of the crucible when you removed the filter from the vial...
So gold is not the only metal found in computer chips and circuit boards, there's rhodium, palladium, copper, and platinum, as well as another of other metals. I realized that the gold may not be worth it alone but what about the extraction of the other metals, as well as those used in the ICS and other components? I really just wonder what the continent of these metals is. As well as what other methods could be used to extract those,. Would the waste chemicals be something that you could further extract from?
*cried in inflated worldwide ram prices*
Just wait until you hear about 3000 series graphics cards lmao the future sucks ass
@@Samiozdyep exactly and also B.I.N.G
I like that you give instructions of thing that are so complicated that i never gonna try to do it
Is it possible that extracting copper and tin would be more profitable than extracting gold?
I think what you need to think of i actually extracting everything. including gold, copper and other metals, if you have the gear to do so. That's what the big e-waste plants do.
actualy i had a friend that would take copper from old parts and he made a lot on it.
Leonid Uvarov yes because you have more tin, steel, and copper in a computer than gold
Can't wait to see you distle mercury. I recently recovered mercury from a mercury displacement contactor. It was the first time I've ever seen mercury. It's such cool stuff. Especially when I used your method of cleaning it.
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IM ROBERT BRADBURRY
Ha lol
Yessss I knew I wasn't the only one
hi mr. tank man
Your comment is SLAMMIN!
You spelt my last name wrong. It's Bradbury.
I work for a local computer repair company, if you are interested in doing this for fun call a local place and see if they could sell scrap parts for cheep. I am always trying to offload old ddr2 ram and HDD boards. Also check out where the local computer drop off location is. Each county should have a drop location for old technology to properly dispose of them. People will often take junk there and if you know what you are looking for pickup old circuits and salvage them for the gold. Fun little experiment.
7:11 Smol bar very cute
At about 1:14 that violent shaking might be where you lost some gold. A small amount yea, but when it comes to gold how small is negligible?
“A fan sent this to me.” I had a good laugh at that.
It’s quite odd (but also funny) that you consider us “fans” instead of viewers.
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i am a fan!
That small filter setup was adorable 😊
don't worry buddy some day you'll have cody-level refining and recovery skillz
Hey Nile! You should really post that Lithium Peroxide video next! Im really looking forward to it! I've got all of my equipment now and I'm totally psyched to get going! I just my first extraction of caffeine from coffee using a soxhlet extractor but I cant wait for the total synthesis too!
Fun Fact: making gold from computer parts actually takes more money than the gold
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lol
this guy can make gold out of literally anything
lol the miniapparatus is so cute xD
The ones cutting the profit are the ones who sold the e-waste, get into selling golden computer parts XD Really neat to watch, though!
Cutest. Stir bar. Ever ❤️
I just wanna take a moment to say is that mini stir bar and miniature apparatus’s are so cute!!!
Can somebody please tell me how many times he said “gold” in this video
8:34 - it's like ElectroBOOM with chemistry. I love it!
When they sell you the computer, all values have been calculated, so don't expect that you can profit from this.
Who told you that?
@@Red-Eagle The facts told me that. Duh?
I really appreciate how honest you are ...not cutting (editing out)mistakes I will very soon sign up and pay for your editorials..thx!
so my ~10 000 worthless ram lying around with no use as the horder i am contain gold??
i used to work for a company that did this on a massive scale and they would usually just incinerate the entire board with massive scrubbers to keep the toxic fumes under control then would recover the gold platinum silver and other metals from the ash