Old electronics and expensive RF parts often contain a large amount of gold and other precious materials. For an introduction to how and where all this was collected and see what different parts it was, check out Computer Gold Scrap Money WITHOUT Chemicals or Mechanical Processing (Part 1 of 2)
Prediction before shipping goods off to processing company
| Breakdown of materials: | €/KG | KG | Total |
| CPU Ceramic Gold Top | 180.52 | 0.85 | 153.44 |
| CPU Ceramic | 106.19 | 0.16 | 16.99 |
| CPU Plastic | 43.53 | 0.72 | 31.34 |
| PCB 1A | 10.61 | 2.66 | 28.22 |
| CPU Slot Card | 29.2 | 0.17 | 4.96 |
| RAM Gold Pins | 29.2 | 5.44 | 158.85 |
| RAM Silver Pins | 10.61 | 1.3 | 13.79 |
| Components | ? | 0.36 | ? |
| IC Plastic | 9.02 | 0.36 | 3.25 |
| Total | 12.02 | 410.85 € |
What was actually paid out from the processing company
| Breakdown of materials: | €/KG | KG | Total |
| CPU Ceramic Gold Top | 184.80 | 0.89 | 153.44 |
| CPU Ceramic | 108.72 | 0.18 | 19.57 |
| CPU Plastic | 44.57 | 0.76 | 33.87 |
| PCB 1B | 8.15 | 2.14 | 17.44 |
| PCB empty | 14.0 | 0.52 | 7.28 |
| CPU Slot Card | 29.89 | 0.18 | 5.38 |
| RAM Gold Pins | 29.89 | 5.78 | 172.16 |
| RAM Silver Pins | 10.87 | 1.42 | 15.44 |
| Components | 43.0 | 0.38 | 16.34 |
| IC Plastic | 9.24 | 0.38 | 3.51 |
| Total | 12.77 | 456.13 € |
I also made a video about selling gold scrap electronics back in 2018. Check out 2018 gold scrap selling part 1 and 2018 gold scrap selling part 2.
Computer Gold Scrap Recovery Problems
When you realize just how much equipment, chemicals, protective gear and time that has to be invested in such a refinery. And we are not yet at the handling of the resulting waste.
Here I present you with a easy alternative to the above. Exporting the scrap to a precious metal recovery company and get money straight into your bank account. No risks for your own health or the environment. Safety around dangerous chemicals or machinery is not a joke!
Get money for your gold, silver, palladium and titanium without recovery, refining, chemicals, mechanically smashing or crushing. The precious metal refinery of cpu, ram, IC, chip, pins and fingers should be left to the professionals. No more smelting and melting of scrap, schrott or e-schrott. If its electronics, waste, edelmetall, ceramic CPUs like 286, 386, 486 and Pentium Pro, there is money to made from selling it.
Daily updated purchasing prices: https://www.precious-metal-services.com/information/current-purchase-prices/electronic-scrap/
Export papers: https://www.precious-metal-services.com/purchase/cover-letter/
Spreadsheet for calculating your collection: https://drive.google.com/file/d/193pGUvsgH2q5Rwv1pWtqSNAFnwG5oH60/view?usp=sharing